ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,162, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to FOX Velution GmbH (Burgbernheim, Germany).

"Method for the production of cellular plastic particles" was invented by Jorg Vetter (Burgbernheim, Germany), Mirjam Lucht (Burgbernheim, Germany) and Josua Schneider (Burgbernheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the production of cellular plastic particles comprising the steps: providing a plastic material in the form of compact plastic material particles, loading of the compact plastic material particles with at least one blowing agent under the influence of pressure, expanding the plastic material particles loaded with at least...