US Patent Issued to Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT on July 22 for "Method and apparatus for determining the quality of fresh concrete or the like" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,527, issued on July 22, was assigned to Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for determining the quality of fresh concrete or the like" was invented by Matti Okkonen (Espoo, Finland) and Edgar Bohner (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns method and an apparatus for analyzing the quality and quantity of bubbles or droplets of a dispersed phase in a construction material. The method may be used on construction materials before or during curing of the material, while in a non-solid state with the dispersed phase being entrapped therein. The inventive analyzing includes...