ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,754, issued on March 25, was assigned to GLAS TROSCH HOLDING AG (Buochs, Switzerland).
"Double-facade arrangement" was invented by Roman Graf (Gunzgen, Switzerland) and Andreas Synowczyk (Zofingen, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a double-facade arrangement (1) for a construction (70), in particular a building, a bridge support, a bridge pier or a noise barrier wall, comprising a double facade (20) for generating a vertically directed air flow (50) by means of the chimney effect. Here, the double facade (20) comprises an inner facade (21) and an outer facade (22), wherein a facade interspace (23) ...