ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,270, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to DOW SILICONES Corp. (Midland, Mich.).

"Acrylate-functional branched organosilicon compound, method of preparing same, and copolymer formed therewith" was invented by Nanguo Liu (Midland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing an acrylate-functional branched organosilicon compound ("compound") is provided, and comprises reacting (A) a branched organosilicon compound and (B) an acrylate compound in the presence of (C) a catalyst, wherein component (A) has the general formula X-Si(R1)3, where X comprises a halogen-functional moiety and each R1 is selected from R and -OSi(R4)3, ...