ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,871, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Reliance Industries Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Composition comprising functionalized rubber and graphene, processes and applications thereof" was invented by Subhra Mohanty (Navi Mumbai, India), Ritesh Dhanorkar (Gadchiroli, India), Sibanarayan Tripathy (Puri, India), Mrinmoy Debnath (Cooch Behar, India), Abhijit Adhikary (Kolkata, India) and Virendrakumar Gupta (Navi Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to the field of tyre technology and pertains to compositions employed for manufacturing tyre treads. More particularly, the present disclosure provi...