US Patent Issued to Energy Membrane on Oct. 27 for "Film tunnel for roadways" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,654, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Energy Membrane GmbH (Abfaltersbach, Austria).

"Film tunnel for roadways" was invented by Andreas Kraler (Abfaltersbach, Austria) and Robert Roithmayr (Lienz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A film tunnel for forming a roadway roof has supports between which at least one film is stretched. The supports include first and second groups of supports, the first group supports arranged on a first side and the second group supports arranged on a second opposite side of a longitudinal center plane of the film tunnel. The first and second group supports form pairs of supports having spaced upper ...