US Patent Issued to DOW TORAY on April 14 for "Precast concrete molded body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,670, issued on April 14, was assigned to DOW TORAY Co. LTD. (Shinagawa-ku, Japan).

"Precast concrete molded body" was invented by Taro Minato (Tokyo), Katsuhiko Taniguchi (Tokyo), Sakae Ushijima (Tokyo), Hideo Matsuzaki (Kagoshima, Japan), Masatomo Makiguchi (Kagoshima, Japan), Motoaki Imura (Kagoshima, Japan) and Hideyuki Mori (Ichihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A precast concrete molded body is provided, which is a cured product of a concrete composition. The concrete composition comprises: a microcapsule; cement; and at least one type of aggregate. The microcapsule is provided with a core-shell structure having i) a c...