US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Aug. 5 for "Cleavable comonomer strategy for accelerating removal of gel nail polish" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,037, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Cleavable comonomer strategy for accelerating removal of gel nail polish" was invented by Jeremiah A. Johnson (Boston), Leticia C. Cardoso Da Costa (Somerville, Mass.), Elisabeth Prince (Waterloo, Canada) and Alexandra Johnson (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides polymer compositions for use in cosmetic nail polish compositions. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to the introduction of cleavable comonomer additives into an existing polymer composition to produce a chemically deconstructable ...