ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,099, issued on April 15, was assigned to Vero Solutions Inc. (Calgary, Canada).

"Modular building systems" was invented by Scott Isaacs (Calgary, Canada) and Darrin Newnham (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A building module for use in construction of a building comprising a deck oriented in a horizontal plane and a plurality of hollow structural members extending downwardly from around a periphery of the deck. A method of constructing a building comprising placing a plurality of modules according to a floor plan to form a story of the building, pouring flowable medium that sets to a become a solid structural material in...