US Patent Issued to ASTROPORT SPACE TECHNOLOGIES on Nov. 25 for "Apparatus for making and laying bricks" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,126, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ASTROPORT SPACE TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Antonio).

"Apparatus for making and laying bricks" was invented by Samuel Ximenes (San Antonio), Isaac Olson (Kingsville, Texas), Ronald Wells (Castroville, Texas) and John Michael Berringer (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for making and depositing bricks includes a nozzle having an inlet opening, an outlet opening, and a plurality of walls surrounding the outlet opening. At least one of the walls is configured to retract relative to the other walls. When a first brick is deposited, all of the nozzle walls are in the extended posit...