ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,564, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to TENSAR INTERNATIONAL Corp. (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Multi-axial integral geogrid and methods of making and using same" was invented by Andrew Curson (Burnley, Great Britain), Tom-Ross Jenkins (Baildon, Great Britain), Andrew Edward Waller (Newton le Willows, Great Britain), Daniel John Gallagher (Adlington, Great Britain), Daniel Mark Baker (Broomfield, Colo.), Manoj Kumar Tyagi (Fayetteville, Ga.) and Joseph Cavanaugh (Cumming, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monolayer multi-axial integral geogrid suitable for stabilizing aggregate includes a plurality of interconnected oriented strands and pa...