ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,310, issued on June 24, was assigned to APEIRON SYNTHESIS SPOLKA AKCYJNA (Wroclaw, Poland).

"Use of metal complexes having organic ligands for activating olefin metathesis ruthenium (pre)catalysts" was invented by Michal Chwalba (Wroclaw, Poland), Konrad Kurcbach (Brzeziny, Poland), Krzysztof Greda (Wroclaw, Poland), Rafal Gawin (Warsaw, Poland) and Krzysztof Skowerski (Jablonowo Pomorskie, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Use of compounds selected from copper complexes having at least one organic ligand ruthenium complexes having at least one organic ligand, for activating olefin metathesis ruthenium (pre)catalysts in a metathe...