ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,746, issued on July 21, was assigned to ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Co. (Spring, Texas).
"Highly crosslinked polymer particulate" was invented by Alan A. Galuska (Huffman, Texas), William Handy (Spring, Texas), Pavlin B. Entchev (Spring, Texas) and Robert M. Shirley (The Woodlands, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Highly crosslinked polymer particulate. The highly crosslinked polymer particulate includes a plurality of crosslinked polymer granules. The crosslinked polymer granules include a highly crosslinked polymeric material. A characteristic dimension of each crosslinked polymer granule of the plurality of crosslink...