ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,634, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY (Nanjing, China).

"Carbon sequestration foamed lightweight soil and preparation method thereof" was invented by Songyu Liu (Nanjing, China), Xiang Zhang (Nanjing, China), Guanghua Cai (Nanjing, China), Ying Zhang (Nanjing, China), Yitong Li (Nanjing, China) and Yizhao Liu (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application belongs to the technical field of civil and architectural engineering materials, and in particular relates to an environmental and low-carbon foamed lightweight soil prepared by using CO2 and MgO as raw materials. Raw material compositi...