US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama on Aug. 12 for "Compounds for solubilizing polymers" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,737, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Ala.).

"Compounds for solubilizing polymers" was invented by Jason Edward Bara (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) and Shuai Qian (Northport, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are compounds and methods for solubilizing polymers and oligomers. The compounds have the formula: wherein R1, Q1 and Q2 are defined herein."

The patent was filed on March 30, 2022, under Application No. 17/708,589.

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