ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,169, issued on May 12, was assigned to Dow Silicones Corp. (Midland, Mich.) and Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.).

"Filled silicone composition containing succinic anhydride functional siloxane thixotropic agents" was invented by Zhanjie Li (Midland, Mich.), Kyle McDonald (Midland, Mich.), Andres E. Becerra (Midland, Mich.), Joseph Sootsman (Auburn, Mich.), Chi-Hao Chang (Midland, Mich.), Darren Hansen (Auburn, Mich.), Dongchan Ahn (Midland, Mich.) and Richard Cooper (Schwenksville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition contains filler particles dispersed in a matrix material, wherein the matrix material includes...