ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,405, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, DANKOOK UNIVERSITY (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Method for horizontal leveling coupling between concrete foundation and wooden vertical beams" was invented by Tae Won Park (Anyang-si, South Korea), Moo-Won Hur (Seoul, South Korea) and Sang Hyun Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for horizontal leveling coupling between a concrete foundation and wooden vertical beams. The method includes (a) perforating n anchor holes in a predetermined position of the concrete foundation (where n is a natural number that is greater than o...