US Patent Issued to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on July 1 for "Modified styrenic resins through hydrogenation" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,698, issued on July 1, was assigned to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V. (Bergen Op Zoom, Netherlands).

"Modified styrenic resins through hydrogenation" was invented by Paulette Hazin (Bangalore, India), Kaiwalya Sabnis (Bangalore, India), Reginald Tennyson (Bangalore, India) and Travis Conant (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for the hydrogenation of aromatic-containing polymers are described. A method includes hydrogenation of polymers by contacting a polymer solution that includes an aromatic-containing polymer and a mixture of a non-polar solvent and a polar solvent having a dielectric constant greater than 7.6...