US Patent Issued on Nov. 3 for "Concrete block with smooth texture front face" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,732, issued on Nov. 3.

"Concrete block with smooth texture front face" was invented by Christopher Michael Miller (Honaker, Va.) and Thomas Harris (Rosedale, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mold assembly and method for molding two concrete blocks in face-to-face non-contacting relationship forms blocks having smooth texture front faces. The mold assembly includes a mold box having two mold cavities configured to form two blocks in face-to-face non-contacting relationship. A common partition plate separates the two mold cavities and opposite sides of the partition plate form the smooth front faces of the blocks. The two mold cavit...