US Patent Issued to OJJO on July 15 for "Systems, methods, and machines for automated screw anchor driving" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,389, issued on July 15, was assigned to OJJO INC. (San Rafael, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and machines for automated screw anchor driving" was invented by Steven Kraft (Albany, Calif.), Charles Almy (Berkeley, Calif.), Ian Capsuto (Berkeley, Calif.) and Jesse Pavlick (Tahoe City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a machine for driving screw anchors and other foundation components, a desired embedment depth is calculated based on a minimum required embedment depth, work point height and length of available upper leg sections. Once calculated, the machine automatically drives the screw anchor to the depth so that one of the ava...