ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,897, issued on Nov. 11.

"Production process, equipment and system for factory-mixed warm and hot recycled asphalt mixture" was invented by Zhong Gao (Ordos, China), Zhibao Luo (Ordos, China), Feixiang Gao (Ordos, China) and Feilin Gao (Ordos, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A production process includes: feeding the recycled coarse aggregates and new aggregates into the hot recycled material drying drum simultaneously through the cold material bin for heating; adding the recycled fine aggregates to the mixing cylinder of the cold recycled material mixer through the existing cold addition system for recycled materials, and then b...