ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,797, issued on April 29, was assigned to Knapp GmbH (Euratsfeld, Austria).
"Fastening system for covering elements" was invented by Friedrich Knapp (Bad Kreuzen, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fastening system for covering elements, the fastening system comprising an anchoring profiled element that can be mounted to a substructure and a clip element that can be mounted to the covering element and latched to the anchoring profiled element, wherein the anchoring profiled element has at least one latching protrusion on each of two opposite faces and the clip element has the shape of a U with a central web and two legs, and wher...