US Patent Issued to AVIENT on Sept. 8 for "Vibration damping thermoplastic elastomer blends" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,299, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to AVIENT Corp. (Avon Lake, Ohio).

"Vibration damping thermoplastic elastomer blends" was invented by Jiren Gu (Crystal Lake, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to thermoplastic elastomer blends comprising at least one non-hydrogenated styrene isoprene block copolymer (SIS) having a Weight Average Molecular Weight (Mw) greater than or equal to 50,000 g/mol and a Tan Delta Peak Temperature greater than or equal to 15deg C. and less than or equal to 25deg C. at least one of: at least one hydrogenated SIS having an Mw greater than or equal to 75,000...