US Patent Issued to IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION on Feb. 25 for "Electrically-conductive asphalt concrete containing carbon fibers" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,190, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC. (Ames, Iowa).

"Electrically-conductive asphalt concrete containing carbon fibers" was invented by Halil Ceylan (Ames, Iowa), Ali Arabzadeh (Ames, Iowa), Sunghwan Kim (Ames, Iowa), Alireza Sassani (Ames, Iowa), Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan (Mangalagiri, India) and Mohammad Ali Notani (Ames, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to an electrically conductive asphalt mastic (ECAM) composition that includes an asphalt binder, a mineral filler, and a plurality of conductive carbon microfibers, between 3 and 12 mm in length...