US Patent Issued to Cover Technologies on July 7 for "Seismic damping pier foundation system for seismic isolation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,289, issued on July 7, was assigned to Cover Technologies Inc. (Gardena, Calif.).

"Seismic damping pier foundation system for seismic isolation" was invented by Craig Derian (Gardena, Calif.), Alexis Xavier Rivas (Gardena, Calif.), Gregory Nielsen (Gardena, Calif.) and Hamahito Hokyo (Gardena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foundation system includes: a pier supporting a bottom surface of a structure; a collar on the pier 1defining a first and second cable guide; a thrust bearing on the collar opposite the pier; a thrust plate on the bottom surface of the structure configured to mate with the thrust bearing; a first cable ext...