US Patent Issued to Legacy Foundry on Oct. 28 for "Modular floating structure and method of construction" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,336, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Legacy Foundry AG (St. Blaise, Switzerland).

"Modular floating structure and method of construction" was invented by Lucien Vouillamoz (Feusisberg, Switzerland), Francisco Daniel Rincon Hanna (Zollikerberg, Switzerland), Alain Jaccard (Ste-Croix, Switzerland) and Pascal Boschi (Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floating territory is made of at least two floatable building components having the shape of a prism with a regular polygon base, such as a triangle, a square, a pentagon, a hexagon, etc. combined with sliding dovetails and dovetail grooves for slidi...