US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF REGENTS FOR THE OKLAHOMA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGES on Dec. 16 for "3D concrete printing methods and system" (Oklahoma, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,792, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to THE BOARD OF REGENTS FOR THE OKLAHOMA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGES (Stillwater, Okla.).

"3D concrete printing methods and system" was invented by Matthew Tyler Ley (Stillwater, Okla.), James Arthur Beckstrom (Stillwater, Okla.), Ryan Frederick Smeeton (Stillwater, Okla.), Weston Thomas Allen (Lewisville, Texas), Mohammed Faraz Khan (Stillwater, Okla.) and Myung Kyu Kim (Stillwater, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for forming a concrete member has a first side plate defining a delivery opening for permitting flow of a cementitious mixture therethrough and a second side plat...