ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,070, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ICM S.R.L. (Albaredo d'Adige, Italy).
"Method and plant for cooling a mixture of ingredients of concrete" was invented by Claudio Dusi (Soave, Italy) and Icilio Guicciardi (Ravenna, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and plant for cooling a mixture of concrete, includes: loading in a hermetically sealed tank a given quantity of ingredients to form the concrete, the ingredients including a predetermined quantity of water; regulating the pressure in the tank to obtain a transitory degree of vacuum in the tank; regulating the pressure inside a hermetically sealed condensation chamber to...