ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,576, issued on June 23, was assigned to DOW SILICONES Corp. (Midland, Mich.).
"Method for producing organopolysiloxane" was invented by Peng Li (Shanghai), Xiaocong Xu (Shanghai), Hongjun Ma (Shanghai), Yan Zheng (Shanghai), Shuhua Zhang (Shanghai), Yejun Wu (Shanghai) and Hui Zhu (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing an organopolysiloxane having at least one silicon atom-bonded alkoxysilylalkyl group per molecule is provided. The method comprises the following steps: (i) treating an organopolysiloxane having at least one silicon atom-bonded hydrogen atom per molecule with an alkali salt of carboxylic acid; ...