US Patent Issued to FORMOSA PLASTICS on July 15 for "Superabsorbent polymer and method of producing the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,966, issued on July 15, was assigned to FORMOSA PLASTICS Corp. (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

"Superabsorbent polymer and method of producing the same" was invented by Zhong-Yi Chen (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Yu-Sam Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Ya-Chi Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Ping-Chung Cheng (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A superabsorbent polymers and a method of forming the same are provided. The method is processed by adding calcined shell powders to a free radical polymerization. The superabsorbent polymers with more micropores can be obtained. Therefore, absorptivity and permeability for the liquid of the superabsorbent polyme...