ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,590, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.).

"Polymer compositions and polymeric plasticizer applications incorporating same" was invented by Xian Jiang (Lake Jackson, Texas), Yushan Hu (Lake Jackson, Texas), Wayne C. Whelchel (Wilmington, Del.), Bruce M. Hasch (Lake Jackson, Texas), Hayley A. Brown (Lake Jackson, Texas) and Seema V. Karande (Freeport, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides embodiments of a tetrapolymer composition. In embodiments, the tetrapolymer composition may have the formula E/P/X/CO, which may include from 25 wt. % to 90 wt. % of ethylene (...