US Patent Issued to University of Central Florida Research Foundation on Aug. 12 for "System for constructing building material from lunar soil and associated method" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,730, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"System for constructing building material from lunar soil and associated method" was invented by Philip Metzger (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and associated method constructs a building material from lunar soil. A magnetic sorter magnetically sorts the lunar soil and the system creates a layered surface comprising a microwave susceptible, thermal conductive top layer of lunar soil and a poorly microwave-susceptible and poorly thermally conductive sublayer of lunar soil. A microwave generator genera...