US Patent Issued to YOSHINO GYPSUM on July 28 for "Wooden load-bearing wall, method of constructing wooden load-bearing wall, method of increasing co-efficient of effective wall length of wooden load-bearing wall, and gypsum-based load-bearing board" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,698, issued on July 28, was assigned to YOSHINO GYPSUM Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Wooden load-bearing wall, method of constructing wooden load-bearing wall, method of increasing co-efficient of effective wall length of wooden load-bearing wall, and gypsum-based load-bearing board" was invented by Ushio Sudo (Tokyo), Katsumi Niimi (Tokyo), Tomoya Hasegawa (Tokyo), Takuji Yamashita (Tokyo), Kozo Akai (Tokyo) and Yousuke Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wooden load-bearing wall having a structure in which a gypsum-based load-bearing board is fastened to a wooden wall base, is provided. The gypsum-based load-bearing board includes a ...