US Patent Issued to Wolverine Advanced Materials on Sept. 29 for "Nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR)-polyester hybrid conductive coating" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,342, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Wolverine Advanced Materials LLC.

"Nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR)-polyester hybrid conductive coating" was invented by Bryan Grace (Dearborn, Mich.), Abed Hashemi (Dearborn, Mich.) and Drew Zawacki (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conductive rubber composite coating can be provided from both an aqueous or non-aqueous formulation which includes a mixture, preferably a homogenous mixture, of a nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR), a polyester and at least one conductive filler. In some embodiments, and after coating and vulcanization the formulation to a substrate, a conductive rubbe...