US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA on Jan. 27 for "Sulfur-based functional prepolymers for polyurethanes and polymeric materials" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,565, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tuscon, Ariz.).

"Sulfur-based functional prepolymers for polyurethanes and polymeric materials" was invented by Kyungseok Kang (Tucson, Ariz.), Jeffrey Pyun (Tucson, Ariz.) and Taeheon Lee (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition includes a reaction product of a mixture of elemental sulfur and at least a first ethylenically unsaturated compound comprising a hydroxyl or carboxyl group."

The patent was filed on Feb. 4, 2021, under Application No. 17/797,531.

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