US Patent Issued to IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION on May 13 for "Maintenance treatments useful for improving the performance of aged or brittle resinous binders in paving or roofing" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,150, issued on May 13, was assigned to IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC. (Ames, Iowa).

"Maintenance treatments useful for improving the performance of aged or brittle resinous binders in paving or roofing" was invented by Ronald Christopher Williams (Ames, Iowa), Eric W. Cochran (Ames, Iowa), Theodore Huisman (Ames, Iowa), Ashley F. Buss (Ames, Iowa), Irvin Pinto (Ames, Iowa), Nacu Hernandez (Ames, Iowa), Joseph Podolsky (Ames, Iowa), Michael J. Forrester (Ames, Iowa), Maxwell D. Staver (Ames, Iowa), Baker W. Kuehl (Ames, Iowa) and Austin D. Hohmann (Ames, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are an emulsi...