US Patent Issued to Mapei on April 7 for "Universal support for raised floors, with open ring locking the tilting function" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,667, issued on April 7, was assigned to Mapei S.p.A. (Milan).

"Universal support for raised floors, with open ring locking the tilting function" was invented by Marco Squinzi (Milan) and Andrea Annoni (Lomazzo, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support (1) for raised floors comprising a base (2), an intermediate element (3) and a head (4) on which raised floor portions rest. The support (1) is of the universal type, namely it allows selectively both a tilting movement of the head (4) on the intermediate element (3), and only a rotation movement of the head (4) on the intermediate element (3) about an axis perpendicular to a plan...