US Patent Issued to BASF on July 28 for "Process for preparing coated shaped bodies and their use" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,357, issued on July 28, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Process for preparing coated shaped bodies and their use" was invented by Anna Maria Mueller-Cristadoro (Lemfoerde, Germany), Frank Prissok (Lemfoerde, Germany), Bernd Reck (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Michael Harms (Lemfoerde, Germany), Frank Thielbeer (Lemfoerde, Germany) and Elmar Poeselt (Lemfoerde, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for coating particles of an expanded thermoplastic elastomer involves a1) bringing the particles into contact with a water-based binder, resulting in at least partly coated particles, and a2) drying the coate...