US Patent Issued to Lubrizol Advanced Materials on Aug. 19 for "Articles made from hydrophilic thermoplastic polyurethane compositions" (Massachusetts, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,790, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Lubrizol Advanced Materials Inc. (Cleveland).

"Articles made from hydrophilic thermoplastic polyurethane compositions" was invented by Joseph J. Vontorcik Jr. (Broadview Hts., Ohio) and David Cozzens (Dracut, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article is prepared by injection molding, wherein the article is formed from a hydrophilic thermoplastic polyurethane composition, wherein the thermoplastic polyurethane composition comprises the reaction product of a hydroxyl terminated polyol intermediate component, an aliphatic isocyanate component, and, optionally, a chain extender component. For...