US Patent Issued to Simpson Strong-Tie on Aug. 4 for "Embed facade attachments and related systems and methods" (Missouri, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,598, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Simpson Strong-Tie Co. Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Embed facade attachments and related systems and methods" was invented by Timothy J. Olah (Independence, Mo.), Michael Bennett (Lees Summit, Mo.) and Timothy Ellis (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embed facade attachment system comprises an inner channel and an outer channel. The inner channel is configured to receive one or more fasteners between an upper retaining flange and a lower retaining flange. The outer channel is defined between an upper outward flange and a lower outward flange and configured to receive one or m...