US Patent Issued on June 9 for "Stud gap marker for wall building" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,226, issued on June 9.

"Stud gap marker for wall building" was invented by Peter Doerksen (Seminole, Texas) and Jethro Bennett (Liverpool, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of stud positioning for wall building, comprises: lining a stud gap marker tape along a plate, the stud gap marker tape comprising a plurality of gap marks, visible on a top side of the tape, that define stud positions at repeating 8-inch intervals that may or may not be used for positioning a stud at, a centre of one of the stud positions being at a start of the plate, the stud gap marker tape thus being configured to facilitate both: stud posi...