ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,056, issued on July 8.

"Environmentally friendly concrete compositions, installations, and methods thereof" was invented by Lee Shaw (Newport Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Environmentally friendly concrete compositions and methods thereof are disclosed. For example, a method for producing an environmentally friendly concrete installation can include mixing cement, one or more locally sourced pozzolans, and one or more locally sourced aggregates to produce a dry concrete mixture. At least one fine aggregate or coarse aggregate of the dry concrete mixture is a locally sourced aggregate of the one-or-more locally sourced a...