US Patent Issued to The Regents of The University of Michigan on Feb. 17 for "Methods of making sustainable ductile cast cementitious structure for carbon dioxide sequestration" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,710, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Methods of making sustainable ductile cast cementitious structure for carbon dioxide sequestration" was invented by Victor C. Li (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Brian R. Ellis (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Duo Zhang (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of preparing a cementitious structure for carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration are provided. The cementitious structure may be a cast in a mold. First, a cementitious composite material comprising binder and water is conditioned, for example, in a mold by exposing the cementitious comp...