US Patent Issued to CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE-CNRS-, NANTES UNIVERSITE on Feb. 24 for "Chemical functionalization of cellulosic materials with diazo compounds" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,577, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE-CNRS- (Paris) and NANTES UNIVERSITE (Nantes, France).

"Chemical functionalization of cellulosic materials with diazo compounds" was invented by Francois-Xavier Felpin (Nantes, France), Guillaume Bretel (Pace, France), Erwan Le Grognec (Lorient, France), Marie Denis (Nantes, France) and Samuel Calderoni (Nantes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for chemically functionalizing a cellulosic material using a diazo compound, and the functionalized cellulosic materials obtained by the method. The cellulosic materials may be functionalized with...