ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,863, issued on June 23, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).
"TPU for inmold assembly of an outer shoe sole on eTPU" was invented by Frank Schaefer (Lemfoerde, Germany), Elmar Poeselt (Lemfoerde, Germany) and Florian Schulz (Lemfoerde, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A molded article (M) contains a molded article (M-1) made of a thermoplastic elastomer (TPE-1) and a foamed pellet material made of a thermoplastic elastomer (TPE-2). The molded article (M-1) has a softening temperature TS (TPE-1) that deviates by no more than 25deg C. from the processing temperature TP (TPE-2) of the thermoplastic elastomer (...