US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on Sept. 16 for "Grafted polymer carrying pendent imidazole functional groups" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,879, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Grafted polymer carrying pendent imidazole functional groups" was invented by Francois Jean-Baptiste Dit Dominique (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modified polymer is obtained by grafting of at least one compound of formula (I) onto at least one unsaturation of the initial polymer chainin which Q represents a dipole comprising at least one nitrogen atom; A represents a divalent heteroaromatic ring optionally substituted with one or more identical or different linear or branched aliphatic hyd...