ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,701, issued on July 8, was assigned to P.T. Medisafe Technologies (Medan, Indonesia).

"Synthetic rubber latex compositions with ionic liquid for elastomeric gloves" was invented by Monichan Puthuvelil Mathew (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) and Asish Kumar Sharma (Medan, Indonesia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are compositions and associated methods for producing elastomeric rubber gloves with improved strength and flexibility at desirable glove palm thicknesses. An example elastomeric rubber glove comprises a substrate formed from a composition comprising a synthetic rubber latex, and an ionic liquid. The ionic liquid may comprise ...