US Patent Issued to Dow Silicones on May 12 for "Methods for making polyfunctional organosiloxanes and compositions containing same" (Michigan, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,168, issued on May 12, was assigned to Dow Silicones Corp. (Midland, Mich.).

"Methods for making polyfunctional organosiloxanes and compositions containing same" was invented by Eric Joffre (Midland, Mich.), Nanguo Liu (Auburn, Mich.), Gang Lu (Lake Jackson, Texas), Zhenbin Niu (Auburn, Mich.) and David Rich (Auburn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polyfunctional organohydrogensiloxane is prepared using a boron containing Lewis acid as catalyst. The polyfunctional organohydrogensiloxane may be formulated into release coating compositions. Alternatively, the polyfunctional organohydrogensiloxane may be further functionalized wit...