ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,803, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.).

"Non-cryogenic synthesis of heteroatom-bridge precursors of metal-ligand complex catalysts" was invented by Hien Q. Do (Lake Jackson, Texas), Philip P. Fontaine (Lake Jackson, Texas), Arkady L. Krasovskiy (Lake Jackson, Texas), Liam P. Spencer (Lake Jackson, Texas), Kelli A. Ogawa (Midland, Mich.), Daniel K. Lesniewski (Lake Jackson, Texas) and Russell W. Anderson (Lake Jackson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to a metal-ligand complex catalyst precursor, (L1)(L2)X(R1)(R2), and methods for producing the same from a comp...