ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,673, issued on Dec. 2.
"Clip fastening bracket and planar construction equipped therewith" was invented by Antal Anisic (Wein, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clip clamp for attaching boards or planks with longitudinal grooves on their edges to beams in a substructure or supporting structure that also have longitudinal grooves on both sides, without the need for screws or nails, to create flat structures such as decks, wall coverings, fences, billboards, etc., includes a squared C-shaped profile forming the base, with a rectangular middle plate, from opposing parallel edges of which two side-plates extend downward at a right ...