US Patent Issued to Orion Engineered Carbons IP on Feb. 17 for "Antistatic or electrically conductive polymeric composition with reduced hysteresis" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,699, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Orion Engineered Carbons IP GmbH & Co. KG (Monheim, Germany).

"Antistatic or electrically conductive polymeric composition with reduced hysteresis" was invented by Hauke Westenberg (Bruhl, Germany), Conny Vogler (Ruppichteroth, Germany), Werner Niedermeier (Bruhl, Germany), Florian Diehl (Neuss, Germany) and Daniel Vorreiter (Erftstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides polymeric compositions with balanced electrical and mechanical properties exhibiting reduced hysteresis comprising an electrically insulating polymeric material, a first carbon black material...