US Patent Issued to STRATALOCK on April 14 for "Composition, method and system for stabilising a rock mass" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,134, issued on April 14, was assigned to STRATALOCK PTY LTD (Morisset, Australia).

"Composition, method and system for stabilising a rock mass" was invented by Ethan Cornford (Morisset, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition for use in a method or a system to stabilise a material such as geological strata or a rock mass in which initially retarded gypsum is accelerated at the time of introduction or injection into the rock mass. The retarding of the gypsum may be accomplished by a retarder such as a hydration inhibitor mixed with the gypsum and the acceleration may be accomplished by an accelerant added to mixture of...