US Patent Issued to ECOLE NATIONALE DES PONTS ET CHAUSSEES on Sept. 29 for "Fastener for arranging a framework with profiled elements curved along pseudo-geodesic curves" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,580, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to ECOLE NATIONALE DES PONTS ET CHAUSSEES (Champs-sur-Marne, France).

"Fastener for arranging a framework with profiled elements curved along pseudo-geodesic curves" was invented by Olivier Baverel (Saint Martin le Vinoux, France) and Romain Mesnil (Vincennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fastener for securing two profiled elements together, including two half-fasteners linked together by a link of the fixed pivot type allowing one half-fastener to pivot with respect to the other about a pivot axis, each half-fastener having a fixing member for fixing a profiled element which is incli...