US Patent Issued to Continental Reifen Deutschland on July 28 for "Sulfur-crosslinkable rubber composition comprising a graft copolymer" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,362, issued on July 28, was assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Sulfur-crosslinkable rubber composition comprising a graft copolymer" was invented by Catarina Sa (Isernhagen, Germany) and Carla Recker (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a sulfur-crosslinkable rubber composition comprising a filler component in an amount in the range of 1 to 350 phr, and at least one graft copolymer having a modified diene rubber backbone and one or more oligomeric side chains grafted to the modified diene rubber backbone, wherein the oligomeric side chains are obtained t...