US Patent Issued to NV BEKAERT, SOLETANCHE FREYSSINET on Nov. 3 for "Soil reinforcement strip and grid" (French, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,460, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NV BEKAERT SA (Zwevegem, Belgium) and SOLETANCHE FREYSSINET (Rueil Malmaison, France).

"Soil reinforcement strip and grid" was invented by Germain Auray (Les Avenieres Veyrins-Thuellin, France), Andre Lins (Zwevegem, Belgium), Ko Cattoor (Oostkamp, Belgium), Bart Allaert (Deinze, Belgium), Matthieu Aressy (Saint Ouen, France), Nicolas Freitag (Le Vesinet, France) and Yassine Bennani Braouli (Croissy-sur-Seine, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A soil reinforcement strip (10, 30) for mechanically stabilizing earth structures. The strip (10, 30) has a polymer matrix (12, 32) which envelops elon...