US Patent Issued to Avery Dennison on May 20 for "Acrylic polymers having controlled placement of functional groups" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,988, issued on May 20, was assigned to Avery Dennison Corp. (Mentor, Ohio).

"Acrylic polymers having controlled placement of functional groups" was invented by Christopher L. Lester (Mill Hall, Pa.), Brandon S. Miller (Lock Haven, Pa.), Michael J. Zajaczkowski (Bellefonte, Pa.), William L. Bottorf (Mill Hall, Pa.) and Kyle R. Heimbach (Milmont, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Acrylic copolymers that include the controlled placement of functional groups within the polymer structure are provided. The copolymers contain a reactive segment and a non-reactive segment and are manufactured via a controlled radical polymerization process....