US Patent Issued to Dow Global Technologies, Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Jan. 13 for "Processes for producing an ether" (Illinois, Michigan, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,551, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.) and Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Processes for producing an ether" was invented by David W. Flaherty (Urbana, Ill.), David G. Barton (Midland, Mich.), Xue Chen (Manvel, Texas), Claudia Eugenia Berdugo-diaz (Urbana, Ill.), Jing Luo (Midland, Mich.) and Yangsik Yun (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for producing an ether including treating (a) an ester with (b) hydrogen in the presence of (c) a heterogeneous catalyst to reduce the ester by hydrogenation to form an ether product."

The patent w...