US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS on June 24 for "Degradable polymers and monomers therefor" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,210, issued on June 24, was assigned to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Ill.).

"Degradable polymers and monomers therefor" was invented by Ephraim Gabriel Morado (Urbana, Ill.), Hsuan-Chin Wang (Lake in the Hills, Ill.) and Steven Charles Zimmerman (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hydroxyacetal or hydroxyketal monomers, processes for their preparation, their use to produce degradable polymers, hydroxy-functional intermediates resulting from degradation, and repurposed polymers made from the hydroxy-functional intermediates are described. The invention avoids the energy-intensive conditions ...