US Patent Issued to Dow Global Technologies, Dow Silicones on Oct. 14 for "Methods for making polyfunctional organosiloxanes and compositions containing same" (Michigan, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,844, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.) and Dow Silicones Corp. (Midland, Mich.).

"Methods for making polyfunctional organosiloxanes and compositions containing same" 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 polyfunctional organohydrogensiloxane is prepared using a fluorinated triarylborane Lewis acid as catalyst. The polyfuncti...