US Patent Issued to SEKISUI HOUSE on June 23 for "Building" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,813, issued on June 23, was assigned to SEKISUI HOUSE LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Building" was invented by Natsuki Ayukawa (Osaka, Japan), Kentaro Kaneyasu (Osaka, Japan) and Toshiyuki Osada (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A building includes a hipped roof, an erected part, and a water guide body. The hipped roof includes a first roof part, a second roof part, and a hip that is provided at a boundary part between the first roof part and the second roof part, and that protrudes upward from a roof upper surface of the first roof part. The erected part is erected on the first roof part while extending from a part of the hip, the...