ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,118, issued on March 11, was assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany).
"Method for producing a rubber-plastic composite" was invented by Konstantin Efimov (Hefei, China), Anna-Lena Dreier (Hannover, Germany), Klaus Hulsmann (Haltern am See, Germany), Andreas Pawlik (Recklinghausen, Germany), Marco Kormann (Fuerth, Germany) and Maximilian Drexler (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a rubber-plastic composite, including the steps of (a) shaping an unvulcanized elastomer, (b) partially vulcanizing the shaped elastomer at a temperature of at least 140deg C. up to a de...