US Patent Issued to Wacker Chemie on Oct. 21 for "Polysiloxanes with radiation- and moisture-cross-linkable groups" (American, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,487, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Wacker Chemie AG (Munich).

"Polysiloxanes with radiation- and moisture-cross-linkable groups" was invented by Michael Stepp (Uberackern, Austria), HyungDae Jin (San Ramon, Calif.), Ufuk Karabiyik (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Rabih Makki (Silverspring, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An organo(poly)siloxane (A) consists of units of general formula (I) RnSiO(4-n/2), where R is selected from the radicals R1, -OR2, Ru, RS and Q, wherein R1 denotes a monovalent substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon radical having 1 to 18 carbon atoms, R2 denotes a hydrogen atom or a monovalent substituted or unsubst...