US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security on July 8 for "Chocking compound dam device and kit and additive manufacturing thereof" (Louisiana, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,386, issued on July 8, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security (Washington).

"Chocking compound dam device and kit and additive manufacturing thereof" was invented by Andrew P. Armstrong (New Orleans) and Guy P. Tharpe (Gloucester, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a chocking compound dam includes a plurality of prefabricated dam walls. Each prefabricated dam wall has two side edges each being configured to connect to a side edge of another prefabricated dam wall. The plurality of prefabricated dam walls are connected to form a dam surrounding a ...