ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,038, issued on July 1, was assigned to AKRON POLYMER SOLUTIONS INC (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).
"Aircraft tire" was invented by Douglas Paschall (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Michael Brendan Rodgers (Leander, Texas) and Adel F. Halasa (Akron, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft tire component is disclosed herein, including natural rubber, a peptizer, carbon black, graphene, wherein the graphene has a thickness of less than about 3.2 nm, a particle size of between about 50 nm and about 10 micro metre, and contains greater than about 95% carbon, aliphatic hydrocarbon resin, treated distillate aromatic extract, N-(1,...