US Patent Issued to ARLANXEO DEUTSCHLAND on March 3 for "Polydiene rubbers with functionalized end groups" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,550, issued on March 3, was assigned to ARLANXEO DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Dormagen, Germany).

"Polydiene rubbers with functionalized end groups" was invented by Thomas Ruenzi (Dusseldorf, Germany), Norbert Steinhauser (Dormagen, Germany) and Kilian Wuest (Dormagen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end-group functionalized polymer having one or more end groups according to the general formula (I)whereinR1 represents a saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched, preferably aliphatic, hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms which, in addition to C and H, may contain one or more heteroatoms, preferably independently of one...