ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,168, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to PERI SE (Weissenhorn, Germany).

"Rapid connection system for detachably holding a formwork shell and formwork beam" was invented by Guenther Staudenrausch (Weissenhorn, Germany), Philipp Rusch (Weissenhorn, Germany) and Andreas Spiegl (Weissenhorn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A formwork module for a formwork for a building part comprising at least one formwork carrier and at least one formwork shell, wherein at least one connector is situated between the formwork carrier and the formwork shell. The connector comprises at least one carrier element which is fastened on or in the form...