ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,050, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Sekisui House Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Anchor support tool and form set for foundation" was invented by Sachi Akita (Osaka, Japan), Kazuki Ichikawa (Osaka, Japan), Toshiyuki Osada (Osaka, Japan), Yoshiyuki Matsubara (Osaka, Japan), Kentarou Kaneyasu (Osaka, Japan) and Hideki Watanabe (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This anchor support tool supports an anchor provided in a foundation, the anchor support tool comprising: a support plate having at least one support part for supporting an anchor; a spacer for positioning the support plate with respect to a form of the foundation in the he...