ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,374, issued on July 28, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.) and Dow Silicones Corp. (Midland, Mich.).

"Copolymers of ethylene with (meth) acrylic ester functionalized polysiloxane" was invented by Arkady L. Krasovskiy (Lake Jackson, Texas), John O. Osby (Lake Jackson, Texas), Andrew Heitsch (Angleton, Texas), Eric Joffre (Midland, Mich.), Nanguo Liu (Midland, Mich.), Brian Dorvel (Pearland, Texas) and Alexandra Frankel (Lake Jackson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments described herein are directed to a polymer composition comprising polyethylene and a reaction product of the copolymeriza...