ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,802, issued on March 17, was assigned to Tenthouse Structures (Pty) Ltd (Cape Town, South Africa).
"Tensile membrane structure building system" was invented by Brendan James O'Molony (Cape Town, South Africa), Sydney Rainer Horn (Cape Town, South Africa), Drew Beattie (Cape Town, South Africa) and Ryan Vivier Higgo (Cape Town, South Africa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tensile membrane structure building system (10) including several standard extruded structural members (12) of the same cross-sectional profile. These standard structural members (12) have a rectangular cross-sectional profile with four sides (50.1-50.4) oriented a...