US Patent Issued to ACUSHNET on June 16 for "Cast elastomers with tunable material property development" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,368, issued on June 16, was assigned to ACUSHNET COMPANY (Fairhaven, Mass.).

"Cast elastomers with tunable material property development" was invented by Shawn Ricci (New Bedford, Mass.), Michael Michalewich (Norton, Mass.) and Robert Blink (Newport, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manipulating a cure profile of an elastomer is disclosed. The method may include providing a formulation comprising an isocyanate prepolymer, a curative, a first catalyst, and a second catalyst. The method may further include curing the formulation by initiating a front-end cure reaction between the isocyanate prepolymer and the curative w...