ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,952, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Putzmeister Engineering GmbH (Aichtal, Germany).

"Concrete pump and method for supporting a concrete pump" was invented by Wilfried Hofmann (Grundau-Rothenbergen, Germany), Wolf-Michael Petzold (Aichtal, Germany), Tobias Huth (Stuttgart, Germany) and Peter Mogle (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a concrete pump, comprising: -a frame; -a supporting leg, the supporting leg having a supporting foot, the supporting foot being extensible relative to the supporting leg; and -a drive for driving a movement of the supporting leg relative to the ...