US Patent Issued to Universiteit Gent on Nov. 11 for "Method to prepare a precursor for a polymer or to prepare a polymer comprising at least one unit having a tertiary amine and a pendant carboxyl group and a precursor or polymer comprising such unit" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,915, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Universiteit Gent (Ghent, Belgium).

"Method to prepare a precursor for a polymer or to prepare a polymer comprising at least one unit having a tertiary amine and a pendant carboxyl group and a precursor or polymer comprising such unit" was invented by Maarten Delahaye (Ghent, Belgium), Johan Winne (Melle, Belgium) and Filip du Prez (Ghent, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method to prepare a precursor for a polymer or to prepare a polymer, the polymer comprising at least one unit of formula (I) or at least one unit of formula (II) having a tertiary amine and a p...