US Patent Issued to FOUNDATION TECHNOLOGIES on March 11 for "High-capacity threaded bar micropile and caisson reinforcement compression spacer" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,370, issued on March 11, was assigned to FOUNDATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Lawrenceville, Ga.).

"High-capacity threaded bar micropile and caisson reinforcement compression spacer" was invented by Frank A. Queen (Dacula, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are provided related to compression spacers which can be utilized in the construction of, e.g., a micropile or drilled shaft. In one example, a high-capacity compression spacer includes a grout vessel body including: a grout receiving portion defined by a bottom of the grout vessel body and a portion of a sidewall of the grout vessel body; a bar receiving portion extend...