US Patent Issued to SEKISUI HOUSE on March 24 for "Support member, support structure, and outer wall structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,319, issued on March 24, was assigned to SEKISUI HOUSE LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Support member, support structure, and outer wall structure" was invented by Natsuki Ayukawa (Osaka, Japan), Takashi Kimura (Osaka, Japan), Toshiyuki Osada (Osaka, Japan), Hiroki Yamaguchi (Osaka, Japan) and Tomoya Hatae (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support member is a member for supporting a first outer wall surface material, and includes a support fixing part, a support extension, and an end surface support part. The support fixing part is fixed to a second surface of a wall base material provided in a manner of surrounding an opening, t...