US Patent Issued to Dow Global Technologies on April 21 for "Crosslinked polyolefin foam and process for producing same" (Texas, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,686, issued on April 21, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.).

"Crosslinked polyolefin foam and process for producing same" was invented by Bharat I. Chaudhary (Princeton, N.J.) and Jian Yang (Pearland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The process disclosed includes an extruder under extrusion conditions at a temperature from 50deg C. to 250deg C., and a polymer composition. The polymer composition includes (A) greater than or equal to 5 wt % of a silane functionalized olefin-based polymer with first melting temperature, Tm1, (B) optionally, a nonsilane functionalized polyolefin, with second melting tempe...