US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on Aug. 19 for "Associative polymers and related compositions, methods and systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,806, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Associative polymers and related compositions, methods and systems" was invented by Julia A. Kornfield (Pasadena, Calif.) and Ming-Hsin Wei (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are associative polymers capable of controlling a physical and/or chemical property of non-polar compositions and related compositions, methods and systems. Associative polymers herein described have a non-polar backbone and functional groups presented at ends of the non-polar backbone, with a number of the functional groups presented at...