ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,176, issued on April 14, was assigned to OLDCASTLE BUILDING PRODUCTS CANADA INC. (Saint-John, Canada).
"Modular building system for hardscape structure" was invented by Marc-Andre Lacas (Montreal, Canada), Robert Declos (Montreal, Canada) and Bertin Castonguay (Magog, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular building system, a method and a connecting assembly for building a hardscape structure, the modular building system comprising: a plurality of preformed hardscape structure sections including: a first hardscape structure section including a first section face and at least one first section groove defined in the first sect...