US Patent Issued to Toray Plastics (America) on Aug. 25 for "Methods of producing laminates of crosslinked polyolefin foam with polyolefin textiles" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,193, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Toray Plastics (America) Inc. (North Kingstown, R.I.).

"Methods of producing laminates of crosslinked polyolefin foam with polyolefin textiles" was invented by Paul Sieradzki (Winchester, Va.) and Tyler Austin Bowman (Stephenson, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods of preparing continuous polyolefin textiles laminated to a physically crosslinked, closed cell continuous foam sheet. The methods can include extruding a foamable sheet through a nip while simultaneously feeding a polyolefin textile into the nip to laminate the textile to the foamable sheet, irradiating th...