ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,194, issued on April 8, was assigned to Atlantis Rubber Powders B.V. (Sitttard, Netherlands).

"Rubber formulation" was invented by Christopher Michael Twigg (Nederweert, Netherlands), Wim Migchels (Nederweert, Netherlands), Jeroen Claessens (Nederweert, Netherlands), Robert Jan Zootjes (Nederweert, Netherlands) and Jan Gijsbertus Driessen (Nederweert, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing micronized rubber powders including grinding of a rubber granulated feedstock, size classification and storage of the micronized rubber powders thus obtained. A rubber formulation including at least one natural or syn...