ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,952, issued on April 8, was assigned to NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY (Nanjing, China).

"Fully bio-based, highly filled lignin-rubber masterbatch, method for preparing same, and use thereof" was invented by Chenjie Zhu (Nanjing, China), Haifeng Liu (Nanjing, China), Ming Li (Nanjing, China), Lei Ji (Nanjing, China), Zhiwei Chang (Nanjing, China), Yixin Feng (Nanjing, China), Zhuotao Tan (Nanjing, China), Tao Shen (Nanjing, China) and Hanjie Ying (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a fully bio-based, highly filled lignin-rubber masterbatch, a method for preparing same, and use thereof. The lignin-r...