US Patent Issued to NDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION on March 18 for "Acetoacetylated and (meth)acrylated resin compositions and thermosets and foams therefrom" (North Dakota, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,590, issued on March 18, was assigned to NDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Fargo, N.D.).

"Acetoacetylated and (meth)acrylated resin compositions and thermosets and foams therefrom" was invented by Dean C. Webster (Fargo, N.D.), Eric M. Krall (Minneapolis), Kelly M. Sutko (Maple Grove, Minn.), Alexander T. Hart (Farmington, Minn.), Karan Bansal (Fargo, N.D.) and Mohiuddin Quadir (West Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to acetoacetylated lignin resin compositions comprising the reaction product of lignin and an acetoacetate ester. The invention also relates to (meth)acrylated lignin resin compositions comprising...