ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,348, issued on April 7, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).
"High-strength eTPU" was invented by Elmar Poeselt (Lemfoerde, Germany), Peter Gutmann (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Edgar Schander (Lemfoerde, Germany), Rebecca Spreen (Lemfoerde, Germany), Christiane Martina Dieckmann (Lemfoerde, Germany) and Dennis Jopp (Ludwigshafen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Foamed pellets contain a thermoplastic polyurethane obtainable or obtained by reacting a polyisocyanate composition (IC), containing at least one aliphatic diisocyanate having a number-average molecular weight of less than 200 g/mol, at least one chain ...