ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,147, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Building Armour Industries LLC (Danville, Calif.).

"Geopolymer formulations for construction materials" was invented by David Robert Brown (Danville, Calif.), Deshia VonDell Jackson (Pittsburg, Calif.) and Sean Francis Killian (Antioch, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a geopolymer formulation for a building material comprises sand, ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS), fly ash, sodium tetraborate, boric acid, zeolite, sodium caseinate, and SC-9. Optionally, the formulation also comprises additional constituents like sodium metasilicate, sodium hydroxide, magnesium...