US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Dec. 16 for "Cement compositions including volcanic ash" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,552, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Cement compositions including volcanic ash" was invented by Noktan Mohammed AlYami (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Ali Al-Safran (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Vikrant Wagle (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdullah Saleh Hussain Al-Yami (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Thomas Heinold (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Khawlah Alanqari (Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to cement compositions including Portland cement and volcanic ash. An exemplary cement composition includes about 10 wt % to about 85 wt % of Portland cement, and ab...