ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,172, issued on June 24, was assigned to HSustainability GmbH (Heidelberg, Germany).
"Integrated process for manufacturing hydraulically hardening building material" was invented by Jan Skocek (Leimen, Germany), Maciej Zajac (Heidelberg, Germany), Wolfgang Dienemann (Mauer, Germany) and Mohsen Ben Haha (Heidelberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing hydraulically hardening building materials, includes the steps of: providing concrete demolition waste with a maximum particle size of up to 150 mm as a starting material, mixing the starting material with water to form a feedstock slurry, introducing carbon ...