US Patent Issued to SAINT-GOBAIN WEBER, SAINT-GOBAIN ISOVER on Aug. 12 for "Additive manufacturing of concrete construction elements" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,264, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SAINT-GOBAIN WEBER (Sucy-en-Brie, France) and SAINT-GOBAIN ISOVER (Courbevoie, France).

"Additive manufacturing of concrete construction elements" was invented by Julien Beaumont (Paris), Elena Dunaeva (Paris) and Jerome Gilles (Mont l'Eveque, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for obtaining a concrete construction element by additive manufacturing, in which superposed mortar layers are successively deposited so as to form two wall surfaces, opposite one another, so as to form a cavity, as well as a plurality of reinforcement elements each extending from one of the wall surfaces tow...