US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL, University of Michigan on March 4 for "High durability engineered cementitious composites with polymer fibers" (Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,017, issued on March 4, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"High durability engineered cementitious composites with polymer fibers" was invented by Mohammed Al Mehthel (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Victor Li (Ann Arbor, Mich.), He Zhu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Thibault Villette (Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Waleed Nasser (Ad Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Oscar Salazar Vidal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engineered cementitious composite (ECC) has a tensile strain capacity ranging from 8.6 to 12.5% and includes a cement precursor, unprocessed desert sa...