US Patent Issued to Cal Poly on Sept. 8 for "Systems, methods and apparatus for resilient Gert Haunch moment frame connection" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,556, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Cal Poly Corp. (San Luis Obispo, Calif.).

"Systems, methods and apparatus for resilient Gert Haunch moment frame connection" was invented by Michael J Deigert (San Luis Obispo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method and apparatus of connecting a beam to a column includes a haunch including a first haunch side coupled to a first side of the beam and a bend plate secured to a first end of the haunch. The haunch is coupled to the column by the bend plate separated from the column by a spacer plate. A top plate extends a first distance along a top surface of the beam and the top pla...