US Patent Issued to ADVANCED POLYOLEFIN TECHNOLOGIES on April 29 for "Functional polyolefin polymers and manufacture thereof" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,496, issued on April 29, was assigned to ADVANCED POLYOLEFIN TECHNOLOGIES LLC (State College, Pa.).

"Functional polyolefin polymers and manufacture thereof" was invented by Tim Hsu (State College, Pa.), Minren Lin (State College, Pa.) and Tze-Chiang Chung (State College, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Polyolefins having the same or different functional groups covalently bound to the polyolefin, such as polyolefins having hindered phenol groups bound thereto, can be prepared by from a maleic anhydride modified polyolefin, with or without a coupling agent, and a hindered phenol reagent under heat, e.g., by heating the components to ...