US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on July 29 for "Additives for use in low surface-energy applications" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,549, issued on July 29, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Additives for use in low surface-energy applications" was invented by Georgiy Teverovskiy (St. Louis Park, Minn.), Maria A. Appeaning (St. Paul, Minn.), Chetan P. Jariwala (Woodbury, Minn.), Robert A. Polik (Minneapolis) and Colin A. Grambow (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fluorine-free small molecule additives of structurewhere X1 and X2 are independently hydrocarbyl or heterohydrocarbyl; and Q1 and Q2 are independently -Si-(O-Si(CH3)3)3 or -(O-Si(CH3)2)n-O-Si(CH3)3 and where n is an integer from 0 to 30, inclusive for use in solid-s...