US Patent Issued to Dow Global Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Substituted silanes as chain transfer agents for polyolefin production" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,543, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.).

"Substituted silanes as chain transfer agents for polyolefin production" was invented by Arkady L. Krasovskiy (Lake Jackson, Texas), Ivan A. Konstantinov (Lake Jackson, Texas), Hayley A. Brown (Lake Jackson, Texas) and Mehmet Demirors (Pearland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to a method of making an olefin-based polymer by free-radical polymerization in a reactor system. The method includes initiating a free-radical polymerization of an olefin-based monomer, propagating growth of the olefin-based polymer during contin...