US Patent Issued to Trinseo Europe on Oct. 7 for "Methods for producing highly thermoformable acrylic solid surface" (Kentucky, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,214, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Trinseo Europe GmbH (Pfaeffikon, Switzerland).

"Methods for producing highly thermoformable acrylic solid surface" was invented by Mohammad Mohammadkhani (Florence, Ky.), Roger Neil Caldwell (Erlanger, Ky.), Mark Gatman (Erlanger, Ky.) and Sebastian Joseph (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Articles may be formed from a thermoformable composition, the thermoformable composition including: a) about 35 wt % to about 95 wt % of an acrylic pre-polymerized syrup; b) about 0 wt % to about 10 wt % of a comonomer; and c) about 5 wt % to about 65 wt % of a filler having an average particle size (...