ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,851, issued on March 18, was assigned to CCCC FIRST HIGHWAY CONSULTANTS Co. LTD. (Shaanxi Province, China).

"Method of calculating the dosage of phase change coarse aggregate, method of manufacturing the same and thermoregulating pavement" was invented by Binhua Hu (Shaanxi, China), Long Jin (Shaanxi, China), Yuanhong Dong (Shaanxi, China), Zijun Li (Shaanxi, China), Jianbing Chen (Shaanxi, China), Yan Mu (Shaanxi, China), Hui Peng (Shaanxi, China), Yao Wei (Shaanxi, China), Wansheng Pei (Shaanxi, China) and Tian Sun (Shaanxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method of calculating the dosage of p...