ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,487, issued on April 21, was assigned to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY (Jinan, China).

"Method for preparing concrete based on GGBS, silicon-aluminum compounds and CO 2 waste gas" was invented by Zhi Ge (Jinan, China), Haomeng Song (Jinan, China), Hongzhi Zhang (Jinan, China), Shuai Song (Jinan, China), Xingjie Xue (Jinan, China), Hanming Zhang (Jinan, China), Jingjing Lv (Jinan, China), Yujie Feng (Jinan, China), Ke Sun (Jinan, China) and Shengya Zhou (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing concrete based on GGBS, silicon-aluminum compounds and CO2 waste gas includes: putting a certain quantity of GGBS, silicon-al...