US Patent Issued to POLYANALYTIK on Oct. 21 for "Synthetic method for the preparation of rheological modifying polymers and the use thereof" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,477, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to POLYANALYTIK INC..

"Synthetic method for the preparation of rheological modifying polymers and the use thereof" was invented by Joseph A. Paquette (London, Canada), Olabode O. Oyeneye (London, Canada), Eric D. Landry (London, Canada) and Amer Ebied (London, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a UV-initiated RAFT-type polymerization for producing hydrophobically associative terpolymers in an aqueous solution. The terpolymers produced by this method can be used as aqueous rheological modifiers. Specifically, the invention relates to a hydrophobically associating terpoly...