US Patent Issued to ROGERS on July 22 for "Filled silicone foam layer, compositions and methods for their manufacture, and articles including the filled silicone foam layer" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,777, issued on July 22, was assigned to ROGERS Corp. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Filled silicone foam layer, compositions and methods for their manufacture, and articles including the filled silicone foam layer" was invented by Katherine Vuong (Chicago), Max Kristy (Chicago) and Kenneth Mazich (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A very thin filled silicone foam layer is formed from a composition that includes a curable polysiloxane composition including an alkenyl-substituted polyorganosiloxane, a hydride-substituted polyorganosiloxane, and a cure catalyst; a plurality of expanded polymer microspheres having a largest dimension of less t...