US Patent Issued to BASF COATINGS on March 17 for "Copolymer derived from substituted benzopinacol and use of the same as polymerization initiator" (Chinese, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,341, issued on March 17, was assigned to BASF COATINGS GMBH (Muenster, Germany).

"Copolymer derived from substituted benzopinacol and use of the same as polymerization initiator" was invented by Ming Wang (Shanghai), Ling Yu Sui (Shanghai), Na Liu (Shanghai), Shrirang Hindalekar (Navi Mumbai, India), Mushtaq Patel (Navi Mumbai, India), Rahul Mulay (Navi Mumbai, India), Qin Yuan Chen (Shanghai) and Yang Yang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a copolymer, including (A) allyloxycarbonyl substituted benzopinacol monomer of formula (I) and (B) at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer, in copolymerized for...