US Patent Issued to Hilti on March 18 for "Multi-component inorganic capsule anchoring system based on ground-granulated blast-furnace slag" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,447, issued on March 18, was assigned to Hilti AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).

"Multi-component inorganic capsule anchoring system based on ground-granulated blast-furnace slag" was invented by Mark Whittaker (Landsberg am Lech, Germany) and Markus Schonlein (Gilching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-component inorganic capsule anchoring system can be used for chemical fastening of anchors, bolts, screw anchors, screw bolts, and post-installed reinforcing bars in mineral substrates. The multi-component inorganic capsule anchoring system contains a curable powdery ground-granulated blast-furnace slag-based component A, and...