US Patent Issued to SIKA TECHNOLOGY on Jan. 27 for "Method for the control of volume expansion of hydraulically setting compositions comprising steel making slag" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,407, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SIKA TECHNOLOGY AG (Baar, Switzerland).

"Method for the control of volume expansion of hydraulically setting compositions comprising steel making slag" was invented by Jerome Soudier (Vaux en Bugey, France) and Alexandre Ben Harrath (Bourgoin Jallieu, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling the volume expansion of a hydraulically setting composition including steel making slag, the method including a step of adding a silica source to the composition. Furthermore, hydraulically setting compositions obtained by such methods and their uses."

The patent was filed on March 18...