US Patent Issued to YOSHINO GYPSUM on May 27 for "Gypsum-based load-bearing board, load-bearing wall structure, and load-bearing wall construction method for wooden construction building" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,809, issued on May 27, was assigned to YOSHINO GYPSUM Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Gypsum-based load-bearing board, load-bearing wall structure, and load-bearing wall construction method for wooden construction building" was invented by Ushio Sudo (Tokyo), Wataru Nakamura (Tokyo), Tomoya Hasegawa (Tokyo), Muneyoshi Nagano (Tokyo), Masahiro Wada (Tokyo), Katsumi Tada (Tokyo), Yousuke Sato (Tokyo) and Daisuke Naito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is to provide a gypsum-based load-bearing board for wood structural load-bearing walls which is capable of increasing the co-efficient of effective wall length without additi...