US Patent Issued to SIKA TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 14 for "Reinforcing element for reinforcing a structural element" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,413, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SIKA TECHNOLOGY AG (Baar, Switzerland).

"Reinforcing element for reinforcing a structural element" was invented by Robert Davis (Macomb, Mich.), Michael C. Niezur (Southfield, Mich.) and Taylor S. Robertson (Oxford, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reinforcing element for reinforcing a structural element in a motor vehicle, the reinforcing element including: a carrier; an expandable material, the expandable material being arranged at least partially on the carrier; at least two fixation elements that are connected with the carrier, the fixation elements each including a circular metallic ...