US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Sept. 30 for "Degradable crosslinkers for (meth)acrylic resins and methods thereof" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,512, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Degradable crosslinkers for (meth)acrylic resins and methods thereof" was invented by Amanda K. Leone (St. Paul, Minn.) and Wayne S. Mahoney (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a thioester-containing (meth)acrylate compound comprising at least two thioester moieties and at least 2 (meth)acrylate moieties and a method for making such compounds. These compounds can be used in (meth)acrylic resins as a crosslinking agent. Upon exposure to a nucleophilic solvent, cured (meth)acrylic resins derived from these thioeste...