US Patent Issued to OMG Building Products on June 17 for "Expandable hanger for beam" (Massachusetts, Connecticut, North Carolina, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,506, issued on June 17, was assigned to OMG Building Products LLC (Agawam, Mass.).

"Expandable hanger for beam" was invented by Mark A. Dicaire (Boylston, Mass.), Logan Carlson (Wilbraham, Mass.), Kenneth D. Canup (Matthews, N.C.), Timothy F. Gillis (Florence, Mass.), Jonathan W. Dezielle (Agawam, Mass.), Frederick A. Enko (Westfield, Mass.), Mark J. Guthrie (West Springfield, Mass.), Mitchell T. Kraucunas (Enfield, Conn.) and Walter Joseph Fallows III (Traverse City, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adjustable hangar for attaching an elongate beam to a structural building member includes a lower module and an upper module tha...