ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,677, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to XEROX Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).
"Latexes and related compositions" was invented by Karen A. Moffat (Brantford, Canada), Sepehr M. Tehrani (North York, Canada), Kimberly D. Nosella (Ancaster, Canada) and Richard P. N. Veregin (Mississauga, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Latexes are provided which may comprise water and resin particles comprising a polymerization product of reactants comprising a dioxane/dioxolane monomer and a vinyl co-monomer, wherein the dioxane/dioxolane monomer is an ester of (meth)acrylic acid with an alcohol comprising a dioxane moiety, an ester of (meth)acrylic acid wi...