US Patent Issued to L&P Property Management on March 4 for "Expandable graphite flame retardant layer for polyurethane and latex foam" (Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,958, issued on March 4, was assigned to L&P Property Management Co. (South Gate, Calif.).

"Expandable graphite flame retardant layer for polyurethane and latex foam" was invented by Courtney Peterson (Fort Smith, Ark.), Heidi Stojanovic (Fort Smith, Ark.), Aubrey Nicole Scherrey (Fort Smith, Ark.) and Mark L. Crawford (Alma, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible foam composition includes a flexible foam body having a surface, which flexible foam is polyurethane and/or latex flexible foam, and an expandable graphite layer on the surface or within the foam surface adjacent to the surface. The flexible foam composition with the...