US Patent Issued to Arrowhead Center on Dec. 16 for "Laterally expanded capacity-enhanced piles and anchors" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,746, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Arrowhead Center Inc. (Las Cruces, N.M.).

"Laterally expanded capacity-enhanced piles and anchors" was invented by Peter Zelkowski (Roswell, N.M.), Paola Bandini Badiello (Las Cruces, N.M.) and Craig M. Newtson (Las Cruces, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for enhancing capacity of piles and/or anchors, which can include any type of piles and/or anchors, including but not limited to micropiles and soil nail, by disposing a tube or casing into the earth and then laterally expanding at least a portion of the casing, in plastic deformation, using an expansion member such th...