US Patent Issued to SEKISUI HOUSE on July 15 for "Building structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,499, issued on July 15, was assigned to SEKISUI HOUSE LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Building structure" was invented by Dai Hashimoto (Osaka, Japan), Hirokazu Miyachi (Osaka, Japan), Yuya Hasegawa (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Suezawa (Osaka, Japan), Tatsuya Ishikawa (Osaka, Japan) and Yasuaki Takahashi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A building structure 1a, 1b, and 1c incorporates an outer wall 6 provided on a lower side of a sloped ceiling 2 in a slope direction, an opening part 5 formed in the outer wall 6, a box-shaped groove part 15 formed at a lower end of the sloped ceiling 2 along the outer wall 6 and having a lower opening ...