US Patent Issued to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY on July 14 for "Moment connections for structural steel frames and construction methods thereof" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,291, issued on July 14, was assigned to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Moment connections for structural steel frames and construction methods thereof" was invented by Mohammed Abdulkhaleq Alrubaidi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for a moment connection between a steel beam and a steel column includes a bracket and a clamp. The bracket and the clamp can be made of steel and are configured to be slidably connected to one another. The bracket is configured to be affixed to the column. The clamp is configured to be affixed to an end of the beam. The bracket has an elongated body. The clam...