ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,431, issued on May 27, was assigned to Qingdao University of Technology (Shandong, China).

"Method for preparing styrene-acrylate siloxane interpenetrating polymer network composite emulsion" was invented by Dongshuai Hou (Qingdao, China), Cong Wu (Qingdao, China), Bing Yin (Qingdao, China), Shaochun Li (Qingdao, China), Pan Wang (Qingdao, China) and Xinpeng Wang (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing a styrene-acrylate siloxane interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) composite emulsion is provided. The styrene-acrylate siloxane IPN composite emulsion prepared by the method can effectively improve the co...