US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA on Oct. 20 for "Chalcogenide hybrid inorganic/organic polymer (CHIP) materials as improved crosslinking agents for vulcanization" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,772, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Chalcogenide hybrid inorganic/organic polymer (CHIP) materials as improved crosslinking agents for vulcanization" was invented by Dong-Chul Pyun (Tucson, Ariz.), Richard S. Glass (Tucson, Ariz.), Kyle Carothers (Tucson, Ariz.), Yueyan Zhang (Tucson, Ariz.), Taeheon Lee (Tucson, Ariz.) and Kyung-Seok Kang (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of vulcanization using a high content sulfur polymer, instead of elemental sulfur, have been developed. These high sulfur content polymers are referred to as C...