ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,156, issued on March 17, was assigned to Amrize Technology Switzerland LLC (Zug, Switzerland).

"Method of producing cement clinker and a second calcined material" was invented by Michael Weihrauch (Holderbank, Switzerland), Ernst Bucher (Holderbank, Switzerland), Andreas Spuler (Holderbank, Switzerland), Peter Kruspan (Holderbank, Switzerland) and Rudy Blum (Holderbank, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing cement clinker and a second calcined material, wherein the cement clinker is produced in a first production line and the second calcined material is produced from a raw material in a second production l...