US Patent Issued to Dow Silicones on Aug. 5 for "Silicone elastomer compositions and elastomeric materials" (Chinese, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,413, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Dow Silicones Corp. (Midland, Mich.).

"Silicone elastomer compositions and elastomeric materials" was invented by Shaohui Wang (Shanghai), Yusheng Chen (Shanghai), Rui Wang (Shanghai), Hans Peter Wolf (Schierstein, Germany) and Mark D. Fisher (Midland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a self-lubricating silicone elastomer composition and a self-lubricating, elastomeric material made therefrom which has a low coefficient of friction and avoids the need for "self-bleeding". The self-lubricating silicone elastomer composition comprises: (i) 50 to 75% by weight of one or more p...