US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES on July 1 for "Rubber composition and crosslinked rubber molded product" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,690, issued on July 1, was assigned to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD. (Kobe, Japan).

"Rubber composition and crosslinked rubber molded product" was invented by Hiroshi Tadaoka (Kobe, Japan), Kazuyoshi Shiga (Kobe, Japan) and Takahiro Shigemitsu (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present disclosure is to provide a rubber composition from which a crosslinked rubber molded product having good softness and excellent resilience performance can be obtained. The present disclosure provides a rubber composition containing (a) a base rubber, (b) an Alpha,Beta-unsaturated carboxylic acid having 3 to 8 carbon atoms and...