ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,838, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to PEIKKO GROUP OY (Lahti, Finland).
"Method and arrangement for supporting a floor element on a beam and beam" was invented by Simo Peltonen (Lahti, Finland), Jaakko Yrjola (Lahti, Finland) and Matti Vartiainen (Lahti, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an arrangement for supporting a first floor element at a beam and a beam. The beam is provided with a supporting flange section configured to support the first floor element. The method includes supporting the first floor element on the supporting flange section so that a first space is formed between the first floor element and...