US Patent Issued to Dow Global Technologies, Dow Silicones on Aug. 26 for "Composition and method for reacting an organosilicon compound and a silyl hydride catalyzed by a fluorinated arylborane Lewis acid" (Michigan, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,241, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.) and Dow Silicones Corp. (Midland, Mich.).

"Composition and method for reacting an organosilicon compound and a silyl hydride catalyzed by a fluorinated arylborane Lewis acid" was invented by Marc-Andre Courtemanche (Midland, Mich.), Anne-Catherine Bedard (Midland, Mich.), Heather Spinney (Midland, Mich.), David Wilson (Midland, Mich.), Arjun Raghuraman (Pearland, Texas), Sukrit Mukhopadhyay (Midland, Mich.) and Travis Sunderland (Midland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition and method can be used in the preparation of various siloxanes...