ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,516, issued on July 8, was assigned to Macrebur Ltd. (Lockerbie, Great Britain).

"Road making material comprising PVC, a method of producing said road making material and a road made therefrom" was invented by Nicholas Peter Burnett (Dumfries & Galloway, Great Britain), Gordon Michael Reid (Dumfries & Galloway, Great Britain) and Toby Jon McCartney (Dumfries & Galloway, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for producing a road making material and a road making material, the road making material comprising more than 10% polyvinylchloride (PVC) by weight and the polyvinylchloride having a ...