ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,193, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Dow Silicones Corp. (Midland, Mich.) and Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.).

"Preparation of organosilicon compounds with carbinol functionality" was invented by Shuangbing Han (Midland, Mich.), Joseph Neuman (Midland, Mich.), Jason Fisk (Midland, Mich.), Haoquan Li (Midland, Mich.), David Devore (Midland, Mich.), Erich Molitor (Midland, Mich.), Robert Larsen (Midland, Mich.), Mike Ferritto (Midland, Mich.) and John Gohndrone (Surprise, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An organosilicon compound with carbinol groups is prepared. A catalyzed hydrogenation process for combining an alde...