ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,699, issued on April 21, was assigned to Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Polymer composite, rubber composition, and tire" was invented by Kensuke Washizu (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a polymer composite, a rubber composition, and a tire which can reversibly vary tire performance in response to changes in temperature. The present disclosure relates to a polymer composite formed from at least one conjugated diene polymer having a weight average molecular weight of 100,000 or more as determined by gel permeation chromatography, the polymer composite reversibly satisfying the following relati...