ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,906, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Leviat AG (Lyss, Switzerland).

"Connecting assembly for the force-transmitting attachment of a first force-absorbing structural part to a second force-absorbing structural part, and structure" was invented by Tina Keller (Querfurt, Germany) and Thorsten Heidolf (Weimar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connecting assembly for the force-transmitting attachment of a first force-absorbing structural part to a second force-absorbing structural part includes tensile force-transmitters, shearing force-transmitters and compressive force-transmitters. The compressive force-transmitters include ...