US Patent Issued to Colorado State University Research Foundation on March 31 for "Agricultural waste ash as cementitious material and methods of making the same" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,031, issued on March 31, was assigned to Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colo.).

"Agricultural waste ash as cementitious material and methods of making the same" was invented by Mahmoud Shakouri (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods of a method of making agricultural waste ash supplementary cementitious materials (AWASCMs), the method includes pretreating agricultural waste with acid, burning the acid pretreated agricultural waste to form agricultural waste ash (AWA), heat treating the AWA, grinding the AWA into an AWA supplemental cem...