US Patent Issued to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, TAIHEIYO CEMENT on Oct. 20 for "Binder composition for soil and solidification treatment method for soil" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,576, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.) and TAIHEIYO CEMENT Corp. (Tokyo).

"Binder composition for soil and solidification treatment method for soil" was invented by Takahito Nozaki (Chiba, Japan), Yasuhide Higo (Chiba, Japan), Robert Miskewitz (Cranford, N.J.) and Ali Maher (Skillman, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A binder composition for immobilizing a toxic-containing material. This composition has excellent strength developing properties at low temperature and is capable of solidifying soil to suppress the elution of toxic materials from the soil."

The paten...