US Patent Issued to ExxonMobil Engineering & Technology on April 22 for "Propylene ethylene diene terpolymer polyolefin additives for improved tire tread performance" (Texas, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,228, issued on April 22, was assigned to ExxonMobil Engineering & Technology Co. (Baytown, Texas).

"Propylene ethylene diene terpolymer polyolefin additives for improved tire tread performance" was invented by Edward J. Blok (Huffman, Texas), Anthony J. Dias (Houston), Jason A. Mann (Houston), Andy H. Tsou (Houston), Paul T. Q. Nguyen (League City, Texas), Gabor Kiss (Hampton, N.J.) and Abdul M. Jangda (Humble, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Elastomeric compositions comprising propylene-ethylene-diene terpolymer based polyolefin additives useful in tire tread compositions. The elastomeric compositions comprise 100 phr (parts by ...