ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,860, issued on July 28, was assigned to Putzmeister Engineering GmbH (Aichtal, Germany).
"Method for operating a construction-material and/or viscous-material pump for conveying construction material and/or viscous material, and construction-material and/or viscous-material pump for conveying construction material and/or viscous material" was invented by Carl Wiesenack (Munich), Benjamin Hoelzle (Bad Urach, Germany), Michael Schaefer (Gaeufelden-Tailfingen, Germany), Wolf-Michael Petzold (Aichwald, Germany), Jan-Martin Veit (Pliezhausen, Germany) and Ralf Weimer (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method operates a c...