US Patent Issued to MiTek Holdings on Oct. 27 for "Modular building unit" (New York, Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,596, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to MiTek Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Modular building unit" was invented by David Thompson (Winfield, Pa.), Jason Buchheit (New York), Jared Adams (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Ben Downing (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular building unit has an interior space and is placed with other modular building units to form a building. The unit includes a first modular section having a first floor frame and a first wall frame extending up from the first floor frame. The first modular section defines a first portion of the interior space of the unit. The first floor frame underlies the f...