ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,728, issued on July 1, was assigned to Beyond Lotus LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods of preparing a composite having elastomer and filler" was invented by Yakov E. Kutsovsky (Arlington, Mass.), Martin C. Green (Boxborough, Mass.), Ping Zhang (Westford, Mass.), Dhaval A Doshi (Lexington, Mass.), Jiaxi Li (Nashua, N.H.), Michael D. Morris (Nashua, N.H.), Brian N. Hult (Arlington, Mass.), Ralph E. Dickinson (Dracut, Mass.), Irina S. Yurovskaya (Corpus Christi, Texas), Frederick H. Rumpf (Billerica, Mass.), Satyan Choudhary (Billerica, Mass.), Hassan M. Ali (Andover, Mass.), Ani T. Nikova (Winchester, Mass.), Jincheng Xiong (Boxborough, Mass.) and Michael Beaulieu (Bolton, Mass.).

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