ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,360, issued on March 17, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.) and Rohm and Haas Co. (Collegeville, Pa.).

"Viscoelastic polyurethane foam with coating" was invented by Kaoru Aou (Lake Jackson, Texas), Yibei Gu (Redwood City, Calif.), Rajat Duggal (Manvel, Texas), Yasmin N. Srivastava (Sugar Land, Texas), Joseph Jacobs (Yardley, Pa.), Qinghao Meng (Angleton, Texas), Gregoire Cardoen (Collegeville, Pa.), Ralph C. Even (Blue Bell, Pa.) and Morgan A. Springs (Angleton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coated viscoelastic polyurethane foam includes a viscoelastic polyurethane foam having the coating thereon, ...