US Patent Issued to UBFS on Dec. 16 for "Building facade system and method of providing a building facade" (Illinois, California, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,780, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to UBFS LLC (Chicago).

"Building facade system and method of providing a building facade" was invented by James Jonathan White (Riverside, Ill.), Edward Mitry Coosaia Jr. (Livermore, Calif.) and Jason S. Eastwood (Pittsburg, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A building facade system is provided with a unified anchor assembly having an anchor member. The anchor member has a blade portion, an anchor fist and an anchor fork. The blade portion has a head at the proximal end, a lateral surface having serrations and a slotted opening. The anchor fist has a channel and a flange, the channel receives th...