ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,258, issued on July 14, was assigned to BAUER Spezialtiefbau GmbH (Schrobenhausen, Germany).

"Method for designing and forming a retaining wall in the ground, and retaining wall" was invented by Klaus Idda (Schrobenhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for designing and forming a retaining wall in the ground having a required target wall stiffness made of a soil-based mortar, which is produced in the ground by mixing soil material and a cement suspension, and vertically aligned support beams, which are positioned in the soil-based mortar and arranged therein, wherein the arrangement of the s...