US Patent Issued to Lehigh University on Jan. 13 for "Concrete compositions and apparatuses employing the same" (Pennsylvania, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,535, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pa.).

"Concrete compositions and apparatuses employing the same" was invented by Clay Naito (Coopersburg, Pa.), Spencer Quiel (Coopersburg, Pa.), Muhannad Suleiman (Orefield, Pa.), Carlos Romero (Bethlehem, Pa.), Sudhakar Neti (St. Augustine, Fla.) and Shuoyu Wang (Allentown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Concrete materials and thermal energy storage devices employing such concrete materials are disclosed herein. The concrete material may include fibers in an amount ranging from about 1 to about 2 vol. %; an aggregate in an amount ranging from about 50 to abou...