ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,326, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Command Alkon Inc. (Birmingham, Ala.).

"System and method for monitoring fresh concrete being handled in a concrete mixer using trained data processing engines" was invented by Jerome Chapdelaine (Saint-Nicolas, Canada) and Denis Beaupre (Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for a concrete mixer having a drum receiving fresh concrete therein. The system generally has: a sensor measuring a set of measurand values indicative of a measurand associated with at least one of the fresh concrete, the drum and components of the concrete mixer; and a controller c...