US Patent Issued to CAST CONNEX on Feb. 17 for "Yielding link, particularly for eccentrically braced frames" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,251, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CAST CONNEX Corp. (Toronto).

"Yielding link, particularly for eccentrically braced frames" was invented by Michael Gray (Whitby, Canada), Juan-Carlos De Oliveira (Pickering, Canada), Constantin Christopolous (Toronto), Tarana Haque (Vaughan, Canada) and Kyla Tan (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structural yielding link, particularly for use in an eccentrically braced frame arrangement or in a linked column frame arrangement having a first end having a means for connecting to a face of a first beam and a second end having a means for connecting to a face of a second beam; a first variab...