ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,316, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China).

"Acrylate oligomer and preparation method and application method thereof" was invented by Tao Xie (Hangzhou, China), Jingjun Wu (Hangzhou, China), Qian Zhao (Hangzhou, China) and Jiada Chen (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses an acrylate oligomer, the acrylate oligomer is obtained by a reaction of isocyanate group-terminated oligomer and formate-terminated ethylene glycol methacrylate. After the acrylate oligomer provided by the present invention is photocured, the molecular structure, cross-linking density and o...