US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES, Agency for Science, Technology and Research on Feb. 18 for "Post polymerization modification in flow" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,615, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.) and Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore).

"Post polymerization modification in flow" was invented by Nathaniel H. Park (San Jose, Calif.), Victoria A. Piunova (Los Gatos, Calif.), Dmitry Zubarev (San Jose, Calif.), James L Hedrick (Pleasanton, Calif.), Yi Yan Yang (Singapore) and Eddy Wei Ping Tan (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques regarding post polymerization modifications to polycarbonate polymers via a flow reactor are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a cycli...