US Patent Issued to Next Foundation on Nov. 3 for "Foundation for a tower of a transmitting station or for overhead-line construction" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,459, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Next Foundation GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Foundation for a tower of a transmitting station or for overhead-line construction" was invented by Gregor Prass (Hamburg, Germany) and Christoph Schriefer (Redefin, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a foundation for a tower of a transmitting station or for overhead-line construction, the foundation comprising at least three prefabricated elements made from reinforced concrete and a mounting region for erecting the tower, at least one first and at least one second prefabricated element forming a lower first portion which is i...