US Patent Issued to DIC on Sept. 22 for "Silicone chain-containing polymer and coating composition containing said polymer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,094, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to DIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Silicone chain-containing polymer and coating composition containing said polymer" was invented by Masaki Hatase (Ichihara, Japan), Ryohei Shimizu (Ichihara, Japan), Junpei Ueno (Ichihara, Japan) and Hideya Suzuki (Ichihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a polymer functioning as a leveling agent that imparts high smoothness to a coating film without causing a defect on the surface of the coating film. Specifically, a silicone chain-containing polymer having a silicone chain on one terminal, in which the silicone chain has a number average molecular weigh...