ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,937, issued on March 4, was assigned to Covestro Deutschland AG (Leverkusen, Germany).

"Method for producing thermoplastically processable polyurethane polymers" was invented by Yi Shen (Dormagen, Germany), Franz-Heinrich Hermanns (Grevenbroich, Germany), Christian Wamprecht (Neuss, Germany) and Peter Reichert (Dormagen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a novel process for preparing thermoplastically processable polyurethanes, to thermoplastically processable polyurethane obtainable from the process and to compositions, articles and uses of these polyurethanes."

The patent was filed on Aug. 4, ...