MUMBAI, India, Feb. 21 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517000798 A) filed by Continental Carbon Co., Houston, on Jan. 3, for 'chemically surface modified carbon black and methods of making same.'

Inventor(s) include De Silva, Lashan Madusha Hendavitharanage; Soufiani, Raymond; Vega, Jr. Eduardo; Marcucci, Angel Jose; and Rogers, Brendan.

The application for the patent was published on Feb. 21, under issue no. 08/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A surface modified and functionalized carbon black for use in a rubber compound suitable for tire tread compounds which can be described as a surface modified low hysteresis carbon black. The modified carbon black c...