US Patent Issued to BASF on May 12 for "Process for producing an aqueous polymer dispersion from a vinyl aromatic compound and a conjugated aliphatic diene" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,504, issued on May 12, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Process for producing an aqueous polymer dispersion from a vinyl aromatic compound and a conjugated aliphatic diene" was invented by Carmen-Elena Cimpeanu (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Christian Jehn-Rendu (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Justin Andrew Bordley (Charlotte, N.C.) and Claudia Wood (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a process for producing an aqueous polymer dispersion by means of radically initiated aqueous emulsion polymerisation by polymerising, in an aqueous medium, in accordance ...