ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,934, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Mageba Services & Technology AG (Buelach, Switzerland).
"Building structure" was invented by Simon Hoffmann (Constance, Germany), Moustafa Imam (New Westminster, Canada) and Pascal Savioz (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A building structure with a base unit and building unit that can be moved relative to the base unit is provided with a joint cover, which bridges a compensating joint between the building unit and base unit, supported on the building unit and on the base unit. At least one of the two support structures has sliding partners, one of which is a sliding partner paired with ...