US Patent Issued to Prysmian, Politecnico di Milano on Sept. 23 for "Flame-retardant cable with self-extinguishing layer" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,349, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Prysmian S.p.A. (Milan) and Politecnico di Milano (Milan).

"Flame-retardant cable with self-extinguishing layer" was invented by Elena Roda (Segrate, Italy), Cristian Gambarotti (Cremona, Italy), Ada Truscello (Merate, Italy) and Franco Galletti (Casatenovo, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flame-retardant cable includes at least one core having a conductor and at least one protecting layer surrounding the core. The protecting layer is made from a low smoke zero halogen (LS0H) flame-retardant polymer composition having at least 70 phr of a polyethylene homopolymer or copolymer having a ...