US Patent Issued to BRIDGESTONE on Oct. 27 for "Method of returning crosslinking site of crosslinked elastomer to non-crosslinked state" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,376, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to BRIDGESTONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of returning crosslinking site of crosslinked elastomer to non-crosslinked state" was invented by Midori Kawada (Tokyo), Yasuo Horikawa (Tokyo) and Mari Miyano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method by which a crosslinking site of a crosslinked elastomer can easily be returned to a non-crosslinked state. The method of returning a crosslinking site of a crosslinked elastomer to a non-crosslinked state includes a step of causing contact of a crosslinked elastomer including a diboronic acid ester skeleton unit represented by a specific general...