ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,779, issued on March 17, was assigned to Mad Buildings Technologies Inc. (Ottawa).
"Building construction system" was invented by Ghassan Marjaba (Ottawa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A construction system utilizes a post-and-beam structure that supports major gravity loads of a building in combination with prefabricated exterior and/or interior wall panels that are not required to support gravity loads beyond self-weight. Studs within the prefabricated wall panels are oriented such that a widest face thereof is other than normal to the wall surfaces attached thereto. Such an orientation of the wall studs reduces or eliminates ther...