US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on July 1 for "General strategy for polymer compatibilization" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,717, issued on July 1, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"General strategy for polymer compatibilization" was invented by Chase Tretbar (Irvine, Calif.) and Zhibin Guan (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polymer composition that operates as a polymer compatibilizer is provided. The polymer composition includes a plurality of polymer backbones cross-linked by cross-links that are Diels-Alder reaction products of at least one dienophile-containing moiety and at least one diene-containing moiety."

The patent was filed on July 5, 2022, under Application No. 17/857,842.

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