ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,616, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Putzmeister Engineering GmbH (Aichtal, Germany).

"Stability monitoring function for a thick matter conveying system" was invented by Ansgar Muller (Aichtal, Germany) and Dennis Odukwe (Aichtal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to, inter alia, a thick matter conveying system (10) comprising a thick matter pump (16) for conveying a thick matter; a thick matter distributing mast (18) for distributing the thick matter to be conveyed, said thick matter distributing mast (18) having a rotary mechanism (19) which can be rotated about a vertical axis and a mast assembly (40) c...