US Patent Issued to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on July 28 for "Expanded beads comprising high melt strength polypropylene" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,377, issued on July 28, was assigned to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V. (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands).

"Expanded beads comprising high melt strength polypropylene" was invented by Douwe Wiebe van der Meer (Maastricht, Netherlands), Mark Leo Hendrik Theunissen (Brunssum, Netherlands) and Martin Antonius van Es (Epen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polymer composition includes a) less than=10 wt % and less than equal to60 wt % of a high melt strength polypropylene, b) less than=10 wt % and less than equal to35 wt % of a polyethylene, c) less than=10 wt % and less than equal to60 wt % of a first polypropylene, wherein the f...