US Patent Issued to Dow Silicones, Dow Toray on July 29 for "Branched organosilicon compound, method of preparing same, and copolymer formed therewith" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,535, issued on July 29, was assigned to Dow Silicones Corp. (Midland, Mich.) and Dow Toray Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Branched organosilicon compound, method of preparing same, and copolymer formed therewith" was invented by Nanguo Liu (Midland, Mich.), Tatsuo Souda (Tokyo), Tsunehito Sugiura (Tokyo) and Michael Telgenhoff (Midland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A branched organosilicon compound ("compound") is provided having the general formula: (R1)3Si-X-NR2R3, where X is a divalent linking group; R2 is H or R; R3 comprises an acryloxy moiety; each R1 is selected from R and -OSi(R4)3, with the proviso that at least one R1 is -OSi(R...