US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Sept. 16 for "Amphiphilic triblock copolymer" (Greek, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,881, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Amphiphilic triblock copolymer" was invented by Apostolos Avgeropoulos (Ioannina, Greece), Dimitrios Moschovas (Aitoloakarnania, Greece), Michelle Man-Shau Mok (St. Paul, Minn.), Timothy Martin Gillard (St. Paul, Minn.), Carl Andrew Laskowski (Minneapolis) and Lucas David McIntosh (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Amphiphilic triblock copolymers, articles containing the amphiphilic triblock copolymers, and methods of making these block copolymers provided. The amphiphilic triblock copolymers contain a first block (an A block) derived ...