US Patent Issued to G-3 CHICKADEE PURCHASER on July 28 for "Functionalized hydrogenated polymers" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,329, issued on July 28, was assigned to G-3 CHICKADEE PURCHASER LLC (Akron, Ohio).

"Functionalized hydrogenated polymers" was invented by Margaret Flook Vielhaber (Kent, Ohio) and Thomas Franklin Spilker (Broadview Heights, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrogenated functionalized polymer comprises a functionalized polydiene that is selectively hydrogenated to achieve a predetermined level of saturation along at least the polydiene portion of the functionalized polydiene. The functionalized polydiene is a reaction product of 1) a living anionic elastomeric polymer initiated with a functional or nonfunctional initiator and 2) ...