ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,285, issued on July 7, was assigned to STRATA INNOVATIONS PTY Ltd. (Singleton, Australia).

"Formwork, matrices, concrete matrices and methods of manufacture" was invented by Benjamin Douglas Gooden (Singleton, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Formwork, matrices, concrete matrices and methods of manufacture are described. The formwork may be configured to receive and retain concrete within an internal void space and has a concrete free external void space. Also described is a concrete matrix formed using the formwork and related methods of manufacture of a formwork matrix and formwork. The formwork itself and matrices formed fr...