ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,191, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to 238 Ltd. (Ipswich, Great Britain).
"Foundation system" was invented by Paul Taylor (Suffolk, Great Britain), Michael Downing (Suffolk, Great Britain) and Geoffrey Whitcher (Suffolk, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foundation system made up of panels for supporting a load bearing surface on underlying ground in use. Each foundation panel has a panel body having a peripheral edge, first and second opposing major surfaces spaced by a depth dimension of the panel body, and a plurality of internal walls upstanding in the depth dimension so as to define a plurality of cells within the ...