US Patent Issued to Surface Tech on Oct. 7 for "Methods and compositions to increase performance of asphalt cement concrete comprising recycled asphalt pavement" (California, Ohio, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,004, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Surface Tech LLC (La Jolla, Calif.).

"Methods and compositions to increase performance of asphalt cement concrete comprising recycled asphalt pavement" was invented by Joseph A. Dennis (Lebanon, Ohio), Steven Santa Cruz (San Diego) and Phillip B. Blankenship (Richmond, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The Present disclosure is related to hot-mix asphalt ("HMA") for asphalt cement concrete ("ACC") pavement. Equivalent-performing pavement may be made at lower cost, or higher-performing pavement may be made at equivalent-to-prior-art cost. The amendments, recycled asphalt pavement ("RAP", and incl...