ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,724, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Polymer, dispersion, and paint" was invented by Cha-Wen Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jen-Yu Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan), Wan-Jung Teng (Xinfeng Township, Taiwan), Wen-Pin Chuang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ruo-Han Yu (Yilan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polymer is formed by capping a copolymer-graft-polylactone with an alcohol, wherein the copolymer is copolymerized from an anhydride monomer with a double bond, a monomer with a double bond, and an initiator. The polymer can be mixed with an organic solvent and pigment powder to form a ...