US Patent Issued to OJJO on June 17 for "Systems, methods, and machines for automated screw anchor driving" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,479, issued on June 17, was assigned to OJJO INC. (San Rafael, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and machines for automated screw anchor driving" was invented by Steven Kraft (Albany, Calif.), Jack West (San Rafael, Calif.) and Daniel Flanigan (Petaluma, 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 available upper leg lengths will fit...