US Patent Issued to Bridgestone on Aug. 25 for "High strength hydrogenated polymers, and rubber compositions incorporating same" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,952, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Bridgestone Corp. (Chuo-ku, Japan).

"High strength hydrogenated polymers, and rubber compositions incorporating same" was invented by Noriaki Yukimura (Chuo-ku, Japan), Michael R. Beaulieu (Bolton, Mass.), Zengquan Qin (Nashville, Tenn.), Jeffrey M. Magistrelli (Richfield, Ohio), Walter A. Salamant (Akron, Ohio), Ryan J. Hue (Akron, Ohio), Shu Wang (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Laura S. Kocsis (Copley, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to functionalized copolymers produced by copolymerization of at least one conjugated diolefin monomer and at lea...