ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,166, issued on June 17, was assigned to BAKELITE GMBH (Germany).
"Composition containing a novolac" was invented by Stephan Schroter (Essen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a composition containing a novolak and water. In one embodiment, a composition is provided comprising novolak and water with the percentage of ortho linkages of the phenol rings of the novolak is greater than that of para linkages, the novolak having a phenolic compound and an aldehyde molar ratio of from 1:0.2 to 1:0.45 and the composition having from 2% to 20% by weight of water based on the weight of the sum of the novolak and th...