ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,744, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ABEO ApS (Hedehusene, Denmark).

"Method of making a building element, an apparatus for making the building element, and a building element made by the method" was invented by Peter Hertz (Frederiksberg, Denmark) and Morten Rasmussen (Lynge, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to the manufacture of a reinforced slab-shaped building element (E) having a length (L), a width (W) and a thickness, said slab-shaped building element (E) comprising an upper concrete plate anchored to a lower concrete plate with a top surface and a bottom surface, said upper concrete plate being ...