US Patent Issued to Dow Global Technologies on April 29 for "Olefin polymerization catalysts bearing a thiazole or imidazole" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,502, issued on April 29, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.).

"Olefin polymerization catalysts bearing a thiazole or imidazole" was invented by Jordan C. Reddel (Midland, Mich.), Todd D. Senecal (Midland, Mich.), Brad C. Bailey (Midland, Mich.), Andrew M. Camelio (Auburn, Mich.), Sukrit Mukhopadhyay (Midland, Mich.) and John B. Etienne (Mount Pleasant, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes of polymerizing olefin monomers using catalyst systems comprising a procatalyst having a structure according to Formula (I)."

The patent was filed on June 23, 2020, under Application No. 17/622,373.

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