ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,126, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to PERI SE (Weissenhorn, Germany).
"Scaffold node" was invented by Erzad Mikic (Karlsruhe, Germany), Bernhard Steinle (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia) and Juergen Bulling (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scaffold node for connecting scaffold elements extending in different spatial directions, comprising a connecting sleeve which is provided as a coupling point for two scaffold components, in particular for two vertical posts or for a vertical post and a spindle nut post, and at least one coupling element which is used to connect the scaffold node to further scaffold components or scaffold elem...