ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,351, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Covestro Deutschland AG (Leverkusen, Germany).

"Solid surface materials with polyurethane matrix" was invented by Ann-Christin Bijlard (Bergisch Gladbach, Germany), Lukas Breuers (Cologne, Germany) and Joan Miguel Garcia Martinez (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to polyurethane based solid surface materials with improved dimensional stability which can be made using conventional inorganic fillers without pre-treatment of the fillers."

The patent was filed on March 21, 2018, under Application No. 16/496,517.

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