US Patent Issued to DOW SILICONES on July 29 for "Catalyst particles and methods for dehydrogenative silylation" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,446, issued on July 29, was assigned to DOW SILICONES Corp. (Midland, Mich.).

"Catalyst particles and methods for dehydrogenative silylation" was invented by David Lawrence Witker (Midland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing catalyst particles (the "preparation method") is disclosed. The preparation method comprises combining a Ru(0) complex and a carrier fluid to form a mixture and heating the mixture at an elevated temperature to nucleate the Ru(0) complex and give the catalyst particles in the carrier fluid. The preparation method optionally comprises isolating the catalyst particles from the carrier fluid....