ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,722, issued on June 10, was assigned to PROMERUS LLC (Akron, Ohio).

"Process for the preparation of high purity norbornene silyl ethers" was invented by Hugh Burgoon (Akron, Ohio), J. Alex Niemiec (Akron, Ohio), Doug Skilskyj (Akron, Ohio) and Larry F. Rhodes (Akron, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for the preparation of high purity norbornene alkyl silyl ether is disclosed and claimed. Specifically, a process for the preparation of industrial scale high purity norbornene methyl silyl ether is disclosed and claimed. The high purity monomers prepared in accordance with the process of this invention are useful in a variet...