ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,866, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation INC. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Boron doped cement and concrete" was invented by Christopher C. Ferraro (Gainesville, Fla.), Jerry M. Paris (Gainesville, Fla.), James E. Baciak (Gainesville, Fla.), Kyle A. Riding (Gainesville, Fla.), Ashish D. Patel (Gainesville, Fla.), David B. Scott (Charlotte, N.C.) and Eric R. Giannini (La Crosse, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide for cement, cement paste, cementitious paste, cementitious mortar, and concrete, methods of making cement, cement paste, cementitious paste, cementitio...