ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,339, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to HENKEL AG & Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany).
"Partition" was invented by Tobias Kizler (Sandhausen, Germany), Georg Manuel Siegel (Neckarsteinach, Germany), Stefan Kochert (Reilingen, Germany), Dario Miguel Santinho Ferreira (Wiesenbach, Germany), Jochen Becker (Angelbachtal, Germany) and Ralph Dalhaeuser (Viernheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A partition for sealing and/or supporting a cavity includes a carrier and an expansion material on the carrier. The expansion material transitions from an initial state to an expanded state by activation. The carrier includes at least one comp...