US Patent Issued to Henkel on Sept. 30 for "(Meth)acrylate-functionalized extended isosorbide" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,518, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany).

"(Meth)acrylate-functionalized extended isosorbide" was invented by David P. Dworak (Middletown, Conn.), Darel Gustafson (Shelton, Conn.), David Mullen (Navan, Ireland), Andrew D. Messana (Newington, Conn.), Aimee Hynes (Dublin), Deirdre Ledwith (Dublin) and Ruairi O'Kane (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to curable polyurethane polymers made from renewable materials. In particular isosorbide derived from glucose is used. These renewable materials may be formed into curable polyurethane polymer compositions having...