US Patent Issued to TOTALENERGIES CORBION on Nov. 4 for "Process for polymerizing lactide using a liquid catalyst formulation" (British, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,046, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TOTALENERGIES CORBION B.V. (Gorinchem, Netherlands).

"Process for polymerizing lactide using a liquid catalyst formulation" was invented by Gerrit Gobius du Sart (Herwijnen, Netherlands), Matthew Gwilym Davidson (Devizes, Great Britain) and Strachan McCormick (Bath, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for polymerizing lactide comprising the steps of a) preparing a liquid catalyst formulation comprising a catalyst, an initiator and lactide, and b) contacting the liquid catalyst formulation prepared in step a) with lactide, and polymerizing said l...