US Patent Issued to Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen Koerperschaft des Oeffentlichen Rechts on July 14 for "Reinforcement and method for operating same" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,261, issued on July 14, was assigned to Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen Koerperschaft des Oeffentlichen Rechts (Aachen, Germany).

"Reinforcement and method for operating same" was invented by Raul Fuentes Gutierrez (Aachen, Germany) and Jan Derksen (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reinforcement for strengthening soil areas, ground surfaces, and in particular subsoils, and earthwork structures includes at least one reinforcement element, preferably a plurality of reinforcement elements which, in particular, intersect at an angle, wherein the at least one reinforcement element includes at le...