US Patent Issued to LANXESS Deutchland on Dec. 2 for "Polymer-modified bitumen, method of production and use thereof for asphalt" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,402, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to LANXESS Deutchland GmbH (Cologne, Germany).

"Polymer-modified bitumen, method of production and use thereof for asphalt" was invented by Thomas Klein (Heidelberg, Germany), Thomas Rossrucker (Ostringen, Germany) and Sandra Horstmann (Neuhofen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to polymer-modified bitumen, to a process for production thereof and to the use thereof for asphalt."

The patent was filed on Aug. 5, 2020, under Application No. 17/633,222.

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