US Patent Issued to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY on May 6 for "Composite structural element, a structure including the composite structural element, and a method of forming the composite structural element" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,867, issued on May 6, was assigned to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Composite structural element, a structure including the composite structural element, and a method of forming the composite structural element" was invented by Ali Saeed Alqarni (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Abdulrahman Sulaiman Albidah (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Raed Magdi Alwafaei (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite structural element includes a concrete member and a hollow member covering a part of a length of the concrete member. The concrete member has a first end, a second end, and a first elongated body extending between ...