ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,656, issued on July 8, was assigned to PMIDG LLC (Anderson, S.C.).
"Functionalized and crosslinked polymers" was invented by David Gravett (Mountain View, Calif.), Kara Bethany Acampora (West Union, S.C.) and Prabhjot Saini (Greenville, S.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Polyhydric polymers may be converted to derivatives thereof by reaction with divinyl sulfone to provide vinyl sulfone substituted polymers, where the polymers may additionally be further derivatized, including crosslinked, and the crosslinked and non-crosslinked derivatives may be used in biomedical and other applications."
The patent was filed on Sept. 9, 2022, und...