ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,069, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to BOREALIS GMBH (Vienna).

"Foaming behaviour of polymer compositions using passive nucleation" was invented by Asa Wannerskog (Stenungsund, Sweden), Anna Hjartfors (Stenungsund, Sweden), Oscar Prieto (Stenungsund, Sweden), Martin Anker (Stenungsund, Sweden) and Ann Watson (Arbroath, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns a foamable polymer composition and a foamed polymer composition obtained by foaming this foamable polymer composition. The invention is also concerned with a cable comprising at least one layer which comprises the foamable polymer composition or...