US Patent Issued to BASF on Feb. 17 for "Viscoelastic elastomeric polyurethane foams, process for preparing them and use thereof" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,894, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Viscoelastic elastomeric polyurethane foams, process for preparing them and use thereof" was invented by Liying Wang (Wyandotte, Mich.), Mohamed Bouguettaya (Wyandotte, Mich.) and David Levy (Maumee, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are viscoelastic elastomeric polyurethane foams, a process for preparing them and a method of using them in making shaped articles. Further disclosed herein are viscoelastic elastomeric polyurethane foams having improved, unique impact absorption performance."

The patent was filed on June 21, 2021, unde...