US Patent Issued to SHAW & SONS on June 3 for "Concrete dowel placement system and method of making the same" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,076, issued on June 3, was assigned to SHAW & SONS INC. (Costa Mesa, Calif.).

"Concrete dowel placement system and method of making the same" was invented by Ronald D. Shaw (Costa Mesa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A concrete dowel placement system and methods for making the same. The system allows for accurate and easy substantially-parallel or parallel placement of slip dowels within sections of concrete so that adjacent sections of concrete may be allowed to undergo thermal expansion and contraction while remaining in a common plane without cracking or faulting. The system includes a coupler and a sheath. The sheath is con...