US Patent Issued on Oct. 27 for "Method for supporting a residential structure to comply with code restrictions relative to base flood elevation" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,601, issued on Oct. 27.

"Method for supporting a residential structure to comply with code restrictions relative to base flood elevation" was invented by Joseph Sostaric (Danville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a resulting PLDCC slab formed by that method results in elevating the lowest floor (LFE) of a proposed structure to be built on a selected building site to a height at or above the base flood elevation (BFE) as each term is defined under 44 CFR 60.3. The BFE is retrieved from the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) by locating the building site thereon. The proposed structure defines the LFE. With a height of ...