ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,189, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Covestro (Netherlands) B.V. (Geleen, Netherlands).

"Multi-aziridine compound" was invented by Patrick Johannes Maria Stals (Geleen, Netherlands), Daan Van Der Zwaag (Geleen, Netherlands), Alfred Jean Paul Buckmann (Geleen, Netherlands), Gerardus Cornelis Overbeek (Geleen, Netherlands) and Jan Van Riel (Geleen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a multi-aziridine compound having: a) from 2 to 6 of the following structural units (A): whereby R', R" are as defined herein m is an integer from 1 to 6; b) one or more linking chains wherein each one of these link...