US Patent Issued to DOW SILICONES, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS on Aug. 5 for "Catalyst, redox-switchable catalyst system, and related methods involving hydrosilylation" (Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,408, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to DOW SILICONES Corp. (Midland, Mich.) and THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Ill.).

"Catalyst, redox-switchable catalyst system, and related methods involving hydrosilylation" was invented by Matthew Jeletic (Midland, Mich.), Thomas Rauchfuss (Urbana, Ill.), Yu Zhang (Urbana, Ill.) and Husain Kagalwala (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catalyst for hydrosilylation is disclosed. The catalyst comprises a complex having a certain formula. A redox-switchable catalyst system for preparing the catalyst is also disclosed. The redox-switchable catalyst system comprises...