US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 20 for "Biobased materials derived from cyclic monoterpenes" (New York, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,978, issued on May 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Biobased materials derived from cyclic monoterpenes" was invented by Brandon M. Kobilka (Fishkill, N.Y.), Jason T. Wertz (Pleasant Valley, N.Y.), Sarah K. Czaplewski-Campbell (Rochester, Minn.) and Eric J. Campbell (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process, a composition, and an article of manufacture are disclosed. The process includes generating a cyclic monoterpene derivative. The generating includes oxidizing a cyclic monoterpene to generate a ketone derivative and oxidizing the ketone derivative to form a lactone deriva...