US Patent Issued to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber on Feb. 25 for "Conductive rubber compositions and articles composed of the same" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,341, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio).

"Conductive rubber compositions and articles composed of the same" was invented by Robert Vincent Dennis-Pelcher (Uniontown, Ohio), Junling Zhao (Hudson, Ohio) and Aaron Patrick Murray (Chardon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are conductive rubber compositions including a rubber component and one or more electrically conductive carbon compounds. In another aspect, the conductive rubber compositions can be prepared by first adding the one or more conductive carbon components into the polymer phase, thereby creating a filler netw...