US Patent Issued to IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION on June 3 for "Acrylated and acylated or acetalized polyol as a biobased substitute for hard, rigid thermoplastic and thermoset materials" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,091, issued on June 3, was assigned to IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC. (Ames, Iowa).

"Acrylated and acylated or acetalized polyol as a biobased substitute for hard, rigid thermoplastic and thermoset materials" was invented by Eric W. Cochran (Ames, Iowa), Nacu Hernandez (Ames, Iowa), Michael Forrester (Ames, Iowa), Shailja Goyal (Ames, Iowa) and Austin Hohmann (Dubuque, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a homopolymer, copolymer, block copolymer, and statistical copolymer comprising plural polyol monomeric units. The polyol monomeric units being acrylated and acylated or acetalized. The...