Seven Australian Provisional Patents covering the architectural primitives of the Multi-Modal Corridors platform — from the foundation core through the integrated tensioning architecture, the drilling system, the structural framework, the multimodal viaduct topside, the modular tower architecture for transmission and distribution, and the assembly-line manufacturing architecture for all structural concrete modules. One coherent platform; one global standard.
The MMC Patent Family is the architectural foundation on which the Multi-Modal Corridors platform is built. The patents address, as a single integrated architecture, the structural challenges that have driven the cost and schedule overruns characteristic of continental infrastructure for the past forty years: bespoke foundation engineering, project-specific structural design, site-assembled construction methodologies, and the absence of productised manufacturing economies of scale.
Each of the seven patents in the family addresses a distinct architectural primitive within the system. The Foundation Core establishes the drilled-and-grouted caisson foundation with cutter head anchor architecture. The Integrated Foundation extends the architecture into a continuous tensioning column that pre-loads the entire infrastructure stack in compression. The Foundation Drilling System provides the purpose-built deep-foundation drilling rig and methodology required for production-rate deployment. The Architectural Framework establishes the modular precast pylon segment architecture with pin-and-box joint geometry. The Multimodal Viaduct Topside extends the framework into paired-pylon multi-deck configurations for continental multi-modal corridors. The Modular Precast Pole and Tower Architecture extends the framework into single-pylon configurations for transmission and distribution towers, with compression-locked cross-arm joint architecture. The Assembly-Line Precast Manufacturing patent establishes the manufacturing architecture by which all structural concrete modules in the family are produced at industrial scale — three-dimensional skin, rib, and die interconnection, robotic factory line, Hub-and-Spoke distributed deployment, and closed-loop sacrificial recovery.
Together, the seven patents constitute an integrated platform for productised modular elevated infrastructure across the full scale range — from low-voltage distribution structures to ultra-high-voltage transmission towers to continental multi-modal viaduct corridors — manufactured to a single global standard by the assembly-line manufacturing architecture of Patent 7, deployed by parallel-team construction methodologies, and maintained through inspectable, renewable tension element architecture providing extended operational life with replaceable components.
All seven patents are sovereign Australian intellectual property, held by the inventor. The architecture is offered to a proposed global consortium structure that licences the standard to deploying nations and host industries, with manufacturing and construction execution remaining locally in deploying nations, and competition preserved within the standard for service-specific equipment, rolling stock, and operational systems.
The standard's two-tier governance separates the structural standard (the platform itself, including pylons, foundations, decks, spans, and construction methodology) from the services standards (separate working areas for maglev passenger, HVDC transmission, electric freight rail, and future services such as vacuum-tube hyperloop transport). The structural standard is the cooperation; the services compete within it. The shipping container precedent applies: the box and the handling interface were standardised, but who manufactured the boxes, who shipped them, and who handled them remained competitive forever.
Direct enquiry from licensing partners, deploying nations, and consortium parties is welcomed.