ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,459, issued on March 31.
"Joint for wall panels made of cross laminated timber" was invented by Eriks Meinarts (Talsi, Latvia) and Peter Frandsen (Talsi, Latvia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to wall panels made of a cross laminated timber (CLT) and to such wall panel joints. Each side edge (5) of the wall panel (1) comprises a protrusion (51) extending thereof and a groove (52) adjacent to the protrusion (51). At the protrusion (51) a heel (53) is formed so that upon assembly of two adjacent wall panels (1) the heel (53) of one wall panel (1) is inserted into the groove (52) of another adjacent wall pa...