ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,383, issued on July 15, was assigned to Mageba Services & Technology AG (Buelach, Switzerland).
"Expansion-joint bridging device" was invented by Simon Hoffmann (Constance, Germany), Peter Mense (Rorbas-Freienstein, Switzerland), Volker Kessler (Constance, Germany) and Gianni Moor (Sils'Maria, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expansion joint bridging device in the form of a plate-type roadway joint which bridges an expansion joint between two building components. The expansion joint is spanned by crossbeams which are braced in a load-bearing relationship on both building components. Supported on the crossbeams is at leas...