ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,490, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Millable silicone rubber composition, silicone rubber cured product, and electrically-insulating member for power cable connection" was invented by Kazuhiro Oishi (Annaka, Japan) and Yoshiaki Koike (Annaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This millable silicone rubber composition provides a silicone rubber cured product having an appropriate hardness and elongation, does not contain an organosilicon compound having a nitrogen-containing organic group and an unsaturated hydrocarbon group, and contains: (A) (A-1) 60-99 parts by mass of an organopolysilox...