ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,040, issued on March 24, was assigned to HENKEL AG & Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany).
"Dielectric heating of foamable compositions" was invented by Bradley McLeod (Bloomsbury, N.J.), Alexis Kriegl (Pittstown, N.J.), Kris Getty (Deerfield, Ill.), Daniel Waski (Elmhurst, Ill.) and Tianjian Huang (Hillsborough, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Microspheres refer to micro-particle dispersion systems formed by pharmaceutical molecules dispersed or adsorbed in polymer carriers such as albumin, gelatin and polylactide; and their particle sizes are different from microns to hundreds of microns."
The patent was filed on March 31, 2021, u...