ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,746, issued on July 1, was assigned to HANGZHOU XINGLU TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China) and ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Zhejiang, China).

"Rubber composition, and tire using the same" was invented by Tao Xu (Zhejiang, China), Zhi Sheng Fu (Hangzhou, China) and An Yang Wu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a rubber composition and a tire using the same. The rubber composition comprises a rubber matrix and a compounding component. In parts by weight, every 100 parts by weight of said rubber matrix comprises 5-95 parts by weight of a branched polyethylene, 5-90 parts by weight of a highly unsaturated diene elastom...