ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,760, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Borealis AG (Vienna).

"Semiconductive polymer composition" was invented by Fredrik Skogman (Stenungsund, Sweden), Emil Hjartfors (Stenungsund, Sweden), Annika Smedberg (Stenungsund, Sweden) and Daniel Nilsson (Stenungsund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a semiconductive polymer composition comprising a polymer component, a conducting component and a crosslinking agent, wherein the polymer component comprises a polar polyethylene and the crosslinking agent comprises an aliphatic mono- or bifunctional peroxide or, alternatively, a monofunctional peroxide containing...