ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,953, issued on July 15, was assigned to INITECH INC. (Clifton, N.J.).

"Batching method and system" was invented by Richard DiBernardo (Pearl River, N.Y.), Trevor B. Mastorio (Parlin, N.J.), Raymond Schleckser Jr. (Jackson, N.J.), William A. Simpson (Harleysville, Pa.) and Matthew C. Tucker (Oradell, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A batching system involves a vessel, a mixer, a pump, and an optical sensor, wherein the vessel, the mixer, the pump and the optical sensor are coupled together by piping so as to form a circuit within which materials will re-circulate while being mixed by the mixer until at least one reading from the o...