ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,836, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to PERI SE (Weissenhorn, Germany).

"Alignment clamp and tie rod connector assembly for formwork panels" was invented by Anibrata Routh (Mumbai, India), Arun Kunnathally Somasundaram (Mumbai, India), Sitarama Rao Naga Venkata Challa (Mumbai, India), Mahesh Dongare (Mumbai, India), Ankush Rathod (Mumbai, India) and Vinothkumar Raju (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alignment clamp sub-assembly (402) for connecting and aligning a pair of formwork panels (200) with each other is disclosed. The alignment clamp sub-assembly (402) includes a base component (502) to be disposed on a joint b...