US Patent Issued to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY on Sept. 2 for "Wire mesh concrete reinforcement members and methods of use thereof" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,212, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Wire mesh concrete reinforcement members and methods of use thereof" was invented by Aref A. Abadel (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Husain Sayyed Abbas (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Tarek H. Amusallam (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Yousef Abdullah Alsalloum (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber reinforced concrete includes a plurality of reinforcing wire meshes scattered and suspended in random orientation throughout the volume of concrete. The reinforcing wire meshes include a first set of two or more parallel wires extending along their lengt...