US Patent Issued to Knauf Insulation, Knauf Insulation, McTron Technologies on June 10 for "Binder compositions and uses thereof" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,790, issued on June 10, was assigned to Knauf Insulation Inc. (Shelbyville, Ind.), Knauf Insulation SPRL (Vise, Belgium) and McTron Technologies Inc. (Greenville, S.C.).

"Binder compositions and uses thereof" was invented by Carl Hampson (Liverpool, Great Britain), Oliver Callaghan (Manchester, Great Britain) and Kenneth Snyder (Mauldin, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A binder used for manufacturing a composite product is prepared by combining i) Maillard reactants selected from: reducing sugar reactant(s) and nitrogen-containing reactant(s); curable reaction product(s) of reducing sugar reactant(s) and nitrogen-containing react...