US Patent Issued to SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS PAMPUS on March 18 for "Bearing laminate comprising a foam layer" (German, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,906, issued on March 18, was assigned to SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS PAMPUS GMBH (Willich, Germany).

"Bearing laminate comprising a foam layer" was invented by Julia Ziegler (Leverkusen, Germany), Jens D. Speicher (Willich, Germany), Georges J. Moineau (Bolland, Belgium) and Juergen Hartmann (Hergatz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing laminate can include a metal support layer, a foam layer overlying the metal support layer, the foam layer including a polymeric foam; and a sliding layer overlying the polymeric foam layer, the sliding layer comprising a polymer matrix. Bearing articles made from the bearing lamin...