ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,773, issued on April 8, was assigned to NEOLITHE (Chalonnes-sur-Loire, France).
"Grains which can be assembled with each other to form granules, granules obtained, manufacturing methods and use of the grains and granules in the field of building and public works" was invented by William Francis Cruaud (Chalonnes-sur-Loire, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Base grains intended to be assembled together to form granules for a composition of construction materials useful in the field of building, public works and civil engineering, characterised in that each base grain consists of a core formed by an agglomerate of fragments of comp...