US Patent Issued to Alcon on July 8 for "Hydrophilized polydiorganosiloxane vinylic crosslinkers" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,688, issued on July 8, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Hydrophilized polydiorganosiloxane vinylic crosslinkers" was invented by Frank Chang (Cumming, Ga.), Troy Vernon Holland (Suwanee, Ga.), Houliang Tang (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Adam K. Sniady (Lilburn, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a class of hydrophilized polydiorganosiloxane vinylic crosslinkers. Each of the hydrophilized polydiorganosiloxane vinylic crosslinkers of the invention comprise (1) a polydiorganosiloxane segment comprising dimethylsiloxane units and hydrophilized siloxane units each having one methyl substituent and one org...