US Patent Issued to Vinylast on Sept. 16 for "Wood post bracket" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,162, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Vinylast Inc. (Lakewood, N.J.).

"Wood post bracket" was invented by Steven J. Leary (Barnegat, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wood post bracket used for securing a post mount to a rim joist and a mounting blocks of a substructure of a deck's wood framing system includes a hollow sleeve defining an open rectangular passage, the open rectangular passage having four walls, a planar base forming a first wall of the four walls and a mounting plate forming a second wall of the four walls that is positioned opposite the first wall, such that the hollow sleeve is positioned between the planar ...