ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,225, issued on July 15, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and William Marsh Rice University (Houston).

"Additive manufacture-assisted method for making structural elements having controlled failure characteristics" was invented by Seyed Mohammad Sajadi (Houston), Ashok Kumar Meiyazhagan (Houston), Peter Boul (Houston), Muhammad Rahman (Houston), Carl Thaemlitz (Houston) and Pulickel Ajayan (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for making a layered multi-material structural element having controlled mechanical failure characteristics. The process includes the steps of: supplying a cementitious l...