US Patent Issued to PrimeSource Building Products on Nov. 4 for "Bracket for supporting attachment of the end of a railing member to a vertical member" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,418, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to PrimeSource Building Products Inc. (Irving, Texas).

"Bracket for supporting attachment of the end of a railing member to a vertical member" was invented by Kevin T. Burt (Dallas), Matthew Carlyle Sherstad (Dallas) and John David Irick (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A railing bracket includes a generally cube-shaped cup formed of a first sheet metal, the cup includes a bottom wall, a first side wall, and a second side wall disposed opposite the first side wall. A bend is formed at the junction of certain of the walls. The first side wall defines a countersunk through hole configured to rec...