US Patent Issued to Dow Global Technologies on Jan. 27 for "Process for preparing olefin-acrylate block copolymers by ATRP" (Texas, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,562, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Texas).

"Process for preparing olefin-acrylate block copolymers by ATRP" was invented by Arkady L. Krasovskiy (Lake Jackson, Texas), Evelyn Auyeung (Houston), Bryan D. Stubbert (Midland, Mich.), Anna V. Davis (Midland, Mich.), Jianbo Hou (Midland, Mich.) and Clark H. Cummins (Midland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a process for preparing an olefin-acrylate block copolymer, the process comprising: a) performing atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) by combining ATRP materials comprising an acrylate monomer, an i...