ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,528, issued on July 8, was assigned to South China University of Technology (Guangzhou, China).
"Crack self-healing agent for cement-based materials capable of binding corrosive ions in seawater, and preparation method thereof" was invented by Haoliang Huang (Guangdong, China), Xintong Wu (Guangdong, China), Hao Liu (Guangdong, China), Jie Hu (Guangdong, China), Jiangxiong Wei (Guangdong, China) and Qijun Yu (Guangdong, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a crack self-healing agent for cement-based materials capable of binding corrosive ions in seawater, and a preparation method thereof. A core material of the agent is ...