ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,518, issued on June 17, was assigned to UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY (Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates).

"3D printed construction element and a system, a method for manufacturing the 3D printed construction element" was invented by Waleed Ahmed (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates), Ali Al Marzouqi (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates), Essam Zaneldin (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates), Noura Almazrouei (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates), Amged Elhassan (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates) and Muthanna Aziz (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a construction element produced by additive manufacturing,...