US Patent Issued to Amrize Technology Switzerland on Sept. 15 for "Method for treating soil contaminated with hydrocarbons, in particular with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,567, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Amrize Technology Switzerland LLC (Zug, Switzerland).

"Method for treating soil contaminated with hydrocarbons, in particular with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons" was invented by Le-Chien Hoang (Holderbank, Switzerland), Nouffou Tapsoba (Holderbank, Switzerland) and Ivan Serclerat (Holderbank, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treating soil contaminated with hydrocarbons, in particular with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, includes working the soil with, by weight of soil from 0.1 to 12% of activated carbon; and from 0.1 to 10% of hydraulic binder, the total content o...