ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,485, issued on April 22, was assigned to PERI SE (Weissenhorn, Germany).
"Element receptacle" was invented by Franz Winter (Weissenhorn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An element receptacle for providing a receptacle for a scaffolding element on a scaffolding element already positioned, the element receptacle including a receptacle which has a receptacle interface for receiving a scaffolding element which also has at least one joint region disposed adjacent to receiving interface, and which also has a clamping region disposed adjacent to the joint region on the side of the receptacle opposite the receptacle interface. The elem...