US Patent Issued to THE WELLS Cos. on Aug. 5 for "Load equalizing support system for facade wall panels" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,766, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to THE WELLS Cos. INC. (Albany, Minn.).

"Load equalizing support system for facade wall panels" was invented by Robert Duane Pavel (Orlando, Fla.), Dean Overby Gwin (Jacksonville, Fla.) and Bryant Ashley Luke (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and an apparatus are provided for supporting a wall panel on a floor surface and for providing a desired distribution of a load from the wall panel to the floor surface. For some buildings, the desired distribution is an equal or uniform distribution. A wall panel such as a precast concrete facade wall panel may include m...