ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,427, issued on June 23, was assigned to Triton MgO Products LLC (Houston).

"Cementitious construction material containing magnesium oxychloride crystals" was invented by James A. Wambaugh (Houston) and Christopher L. Kitchens (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates to cementitious material that is a precursor of a magnesium oxychloride cement (MOC) and comprises treated carbon fibers comprising a dispersing agent at least partially coating the carbon fibers and processes for the preparation thereof. The present invention is also related to cementitious material that is a precursor of a magnesiu...