US Patent Issued to RUENTEX ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION on Sept. 16 for "Waffle slab and structures and method of manufacturing the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,151, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to RUENTEX ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION Co. LTD. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Waffle slab and structures and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Samuel Yin (Taipei, Taiwan), Kun-Jung Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan), Jui-Chen Wang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Jhih-Syuan Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a waffle slab includes providing a bottom mold separately on columns and exposing joint heads of the columns from the bottom mold; providing first sets of beam bars separately on the bottom mold to be parallel along a first direction; and providing second sets of beam ba...