ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,862, issued on May 26, was assigned to DAN-PAL (Kibbutz Dan, Israel).
"Polycarbonate roof panel having reinforcement recess for coupling to sandwich panel" was invented by Micha Ben David (Upper Galil, Israel) and Ilan Katan (Karkom, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial roof panel includes a projection and a complementary wing at opposite sides. The projection has a recess configured for clamping the panel to a second neighboring panel using a fastener such that the panel is supported by the second neighboring panel for reduced buckling under downward load. A modular panel system includes first and second mutually juxta...