US Patent Issued to Dow Silicones on July 29 for "Method for preparing a functionalized polyorganosiloxane" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,536, issued on July 29, was assigned to Dow Silicones Corp. (Midland, Mich.).

"Method for preparing a functionalized polyorganosiloxane" was invented by Michael Telgenhoff (Midland, Mich.), Eric Joffre (Midland, Mich.) and Nanguo Liu (Midland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing functionalized polyorganosiloxanes is disclosed. The method includes 1) combining starting materials including A) a boron-containing Lewis acid catalyst, and B) an organosilicon compound having an average, per molecule of at least 1 silicon bonded groups of the formula -OR2; wherein each R2 is an independently selected monovalent hydro...