ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,390, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.).

"EPDM blends with long chain branching" was invented by Santosh S. Bawiskar (Lake Jackson, Texas), Guang Ming Li (Lake Jackson, Texas), Tianzi Huang (Lake Jackson, Texas), Lizhi Liu (Lake Jackson, Texas) and Xiaosong Wu (Lake Jackson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a composition. In an embodiment, the composition includes a non-irradiated ethylene/propylene/non-conjugated polyene terpolymer (nr-terpolymer) and a branched ethylene/propylene/non-conjugated polyene terpolymer (b-terpolymer). The b-terpolymer has: (A)...