MUMBAI, India, March 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517012059 A) filed by Totalenergies Onetech, Courbevoie, France, on Feb. 12, for 'bitumen/polymer composition with improved mechanical properties.'

Inventor(s) include Haigh, Rebecca; and Kaleem, Zain.

The application for the patent was published on March 7, under issue no. 10/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A bituminous composition comprising a bitumen modified by a crosslinked elastomer, said elastomer being chosen from aromatic vinyl hydrocarbon and conjugated diene block copolymers having a vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon content, as determined by 13C NMR spectroscopy, inferior or equal to 25% by mass,...