US Patent Issued to Dow Global Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Extruded foams manufactured using highly branched ethylene-based polymers" (Pennsylvania, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,973, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.).

"Extruded foams manufactured using highly branched ethylene-based polymers" was invented by Bharat I. Chaudhary (Collegeville, Pa.), Jian Yang (Lake Jackson, Texas) and Arkady L. Krasovskiy (Lake Jackson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extruded foam includes an ethylene-based polymer composition comprising a polymerized ethylene-base monomer with hydrocarbon-based molecules having the following formula (I), where n is from 3 to 160 and m is from 0 to 50."

The patent was filed on Nov. 24, 2021, under Application No. 18/254,046.

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