US Patent Issued to DOW SILICONES, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on July 8 for "Networked silicones and related compositions, methods, and compounds" (Michigan, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,689, issued on July 8, was assigned to DOW SILICONES Corp. (Midland, Mich.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Networked silicones and related compositions, methods, and compounds" was invented by Bizhong Zhu (Midland, Mich.), Kaila Mattson (Midland, Mich.), Jeremiah A. Johnson (Boston) and Deborah June Choi Ehrlich (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A networked silicone is disclosed. The networked silicone comprises crosslinked strands of looped organosilicon compounds. A composition for preparing the networked silicone is also disclosed, and comprises (A) a looped organosilicon compound, (B)...