US Patent Issued to NOVA Chemicals (International) on July 8 for "Ethylene interpolymer products having intermediate branching" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,705, issued on July 8, was assigned to NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Ethylene interpolymer products having intermediate branching" was invented by Zengrong Zhang (Calgary, Canada), Fazle Sibtain (Calgary, Canada), Niousha Kazemi (Calgary, Canada), Kenneth Taylor (Sarnia, Canada) and Shivendra Goyal (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to ethylene interpolymer product having intermediate branching. Intermediate branching was defined as branching that was longer than the branch length due to comonomer and shorter than the entanglement molecular weight (Me). Intermediatel...