US Patent Issued to CARIFLEX on Feb. 10 for "Article comprising a rubber-like film-based article firmly fixed to a substrate" (Dutch, Belgian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,988, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CARIFLEX PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Article comprising a rubber-like film-based article firmly fixed to a substrate" was invented by Nikolaas Van Dijk (Houten, Netherlands), Thorsten Gurke (Ruppichteroth, Germany) and Philippe Henderson (Marbais, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article includes a substrate, and a film-based article comprising a non-crosslinked thermoplastic rubber. At least a portion of the film-based article is fixed to the substrate. In particular, said portion of the film-based article is firmly fixed to the substrate by heat sealing at a temperature of 190 to 250deg ...