ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,685, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOTAL AMERICAN SERVICES INC. (Houston).

"Extruded non-crosslinked polyethylene foam" was invented by Jayna Brown (Houston), Leonardo Cortes Rodriguez (League City, Texas) and Fengkui Li (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an extruded non-crosslinked polyethylene foam containing a metallocene polyethylene, a density of 0.35 g/cc or less, and a closed cell content higher than 70%, methods of making the extruded non-crosslinked polyethylene foam and articles containing the extruded non-crosslinked polyethylene foam."

The patent was filed on June 16, 2021, under Application No. ...