ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,609, issued on May 13, was assigned to PERI SE (Weissenhorn, Germany).
"Formwork system and method" was invented by Julian Huber (Merklingen, Germany), Andrew Read (Voehringen, Germany), Florian Sturm (Unterroth, Germany), Ken Harris (Elkridge, Md.), Justin Lunday (Elkridge, Md.) and Dan Straub (Elkridge, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A formwork system, including a plurality of side formwork elements configured to confront a concrete structure, a horizontal formwork panel configured to support the concrete structure, and at least one working platform, wherein the system is configured to be split in a longitudinal direction and s...