US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on Sept. 1 for "Rubber composition based on a highly saturated diene elastomer" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,116, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Rubber composition based on a highly saturated diene elastomer" was invented by Guillaume Pibre (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Thomas Ferrand (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rubber composition is based on at least an elastomer matrix comprising more than 50 phr of a copolymer containing ethylene units and 1,3-diene units, the ethylene units in the copolymer representing more than 50 mol % of the monomer units of the copolymer; a 1,3-dipolar compound corresponding to the formula "Q-Sp-B" in whi...