ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,005, issued on May 26, was assigned to Arvos Ljungstrom LLC (Wellsville, N.Y.).

"Fabrication and transport tooling" was invented by Jeffrey Yowell (Portville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport and assembly alignment tool, for prefabrication, transport and/or erection/assembly of a plurality of arcuate segments or near identical modules into a large annular or toroidal structure includes one or more alignment fixtures that have a matched pair of mating alignment members. The alignment members each have a first circularity and/or axial alignment member which aligns to a second circularity and/or axial alignment member. The...