ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,662, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Sekisui House Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Anchor support member" was invented by Tetsufumi Tsutsumi (Osaka, Japan), Yoshiyuki Matsubara (Osaka, Japan) and Hideki Watanabe (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anchor support member supports an anchor bolt provided to the foundation of a building, and comprises: an attaching part that is attached to a formwork of the foundation; a retaining part that is connected to the attaching part and retains the anchor bolt; and a securing part that secures the attaching part to the formwork. The securing part secures the attaching part to the formwork suc...