US Patent Issued to THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER on Jan. 27 for "Sulfoxide-containing compounds as crosslinking agents" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,596, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY (Akron, Ohio).

"Sulfoxide-containing compounds as crosslinking agents" was invented by Thomas Franklin Spilker (Broadview Heights, Ohio) and Frank James Feher (Copley, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crosslinking agent includes two or more of functional that are capable of forming a bond with an elastomer containing olefinic unsaturation. One or both of these functional groups includes a sulfoxide group. The functional groups are linked by a linking moiety. A rubber composition may include the crosslinking agent, one or more vulcanizable elastomers, and ...