2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/46730The main features of the recently found classically stable quasi-topological membranes and strings in generic, topologically trivial and weakly coupled two-Higgs extensions of the standard model are briefly reviewed. A variety of localized solutions in the same model are also presented.9 pages, Latex, 4 figures. To appear in the Proceedings of the Conference QUARKS-96, Yaroslavl, Russia, 5-11 May 1996High Energy Physics - PhenomenologyMetastable Defects in Generic Extensions of the Standard Modeltext