US Patent Issued to V-Forms on Aug. 19 for "Forms and subsurface structural elements that redirect soil forces" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,105, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to V-Forms LLC (Cedar Park, Texas).

"Forms and subsurface structural elements that redirect soil forces" was invented by James C. Conner (Austin, Texas), DeWayne Krawl (Austin, Texas) and Omar Besim Hakim (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate to construction of subsurface structural elements that are configured to redirect soil forces. For instance, a form may be used to construct a subsurface structural element such that the subsurface structural element redirects soil forces to vertically displace a foundation rather than have the soil forces crack or ...