US Patent Issued to Contech Engineered Solutions on March 4 for "Tapered revetment block with leveling pads" (Ohio, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,217, issued on March 4, was assigned to Contech Engineered Solutions LLC (West Chester, Ohio).

"Tapered revetment block with leveling pads" was invented by William Howard Karau (Southlake, Texas) and Daniel J. Priest (Liberty Township, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A revetment block includes a top surface, a bottom surface, a first pair of parallel, opposing sidewalls extending between the top surface and the bottom surface, and a second pair of parallel, opposing sidewalls extending between the top surface and the bottom surface and each extending between a first sidewall of the first pair of parallel and a second sidewall of ...