ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,666, issued on June 30, was assigned to EMPA EIDGENOSSISCHE MATERIALPRUFUNGSUND FORSCHUNGSANSTALT (Dubendorf, Switzerland).

"Functionalized Q-T-siloxane-based polymeric materials with low siloxane ring content and method for preparing same" was invented by Matthias Koebel (Bruttisellen, Switzerland), Wim Malfait (Zurich), Marek Nemec (Poprad, Slovak Republic) and Stefanie Hauser (Nafels, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention pertains to a functionalized polymeric liquid polysiloxane material comprising non-organofunctional Q-type siloxane moieties and mono-organofunctional T-type siloxane moieties, as well ...