US Patent Issued to NIPPON SHOKUBAI on Feb. 10 for "Resin particle and production method therefor, and hydrophilicity imparting agent containing said resin particle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,778, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NIPPON SHOKUBAI Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Resin particle and production method therefor, and hydrophilicity imparting agent containing said resin particle" was invented by Kazuaki Matsumoto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is provided that a particulate hydrophilic resin that can be produced under mild conditions, and that has a small load on the environment. A resin particle comprising a crosslinked structure in which at least one of monomers represented by the following general formula (1) and a polyfunctional ethylenically unsaturated monomer are crosslinked,wherein R1 represe...