US Patent Issued to Wacker Chemie on Oct. 28 for "Vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer emulsion and method for the production thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,610, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Wacker Chemie AG (Munich).

"Vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer emulsion and method for the production thereof" was invented by Yong-Hae Choi (Seongnam-si, South Korea), DaeKyu Kang (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Jong-Bok Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer emulsion and method of making the same. The vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer emulsion is prepared by using a redox initiator. Where the redox initiator includes a salt of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of silver (Ag), platinum (Pt), copper (Cu), mercury (Hg), zin...