US Patent Issued to National Central University, UAN TAN on Sept. 15 for "Basalt fiber reinforced asphalt concrete" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,357, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to National Central University (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and UAN TAN Co. LTD. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

"Basalt fiber reinforced asphalt concrete" was invented by Jieh-Haur Chen (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Yu-Min Su (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Min-Chih Liao (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Yen-Yu Lin (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Cheng-Ching Peng (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a basalt fiber reinforced asphalt concrete, which includes: an asphalt material with a penetration grade between 40-300 at room temperature, selected from one of an asphalt mortar, an oil-solu...