ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,788, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SHED Innovations Inc. (New York).
"Sidewalk shed" was invented by Marco Libani (New York), Steven Manocherian (New York), Avner Sadot (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ori Jacobi (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Guy Dvir (Ramat-Gan, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a sidewalk shed section can include a first and second pair of leg sections, wherein at least a portion of each leg section is plus-shaped, and each leg section can include a rod header located at a top end of the plus-shaped portion; at least one hole located at a bottom end of the plus-shaped portion...