US Patent Issued to Knauf Insulation, Knauf Insulation on July 8 for "Binder compositions and uses thereof" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,738, issued on July 8, was assigned to Knauf Insulation Inc. (Shelbyville, Ind.) and Knauf Insulation SPRL (Vise, Belgium).

"Binder compositions and uses thereof" was invented by Carl Hampson (Liverpool, Great Britain) and Ferdous Khan (St. Helens, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to new aqueous binder compositions comprising an aqueous curable binder composition comprising starting materials required for forming a thermoset resin upon curing and a matrix polymer, wherein the starting materials required for forming a thermoset resin upon curing comprise (i) a polyhydroxy component and a polyca...