ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,437, issued on July 15, was assigned to COMPTOIR DES MAILLES ET DE L'ARCHITECTURE (La Roqued'Antheron, France).
"Method and device for attaching a metal mesh screen to a building" was invented by Nicolas Rodet (La Roque d'Antheron, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method of attaching a wire mesh sunshield screen to a building in which the screen is connected to the building by at least one traction element (119, 120, 121) and the screen is tensioned by exerting a traction on the traction element. The traction on the traction element is provided by a compression spring (30) and the intensity of the trac...