US Patent Issued to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY on July 15 for "Moment connection for steel framed buildings" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,421, issued on July 15, was assigned to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Moment connection for steel framed buildings" was invented by Mohammad Alrubaidi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Yousef A. Al-Salloum (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Husain Abbas (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Hussein M. Elsanadedy (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Tarek H. Almusallam (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly of parts for a structural moment connection includes a first connecting component and a second connecting component. The first connecting component is configured to be connected to a first structural frame member. The second connectin...