US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY on Sept. 8 for "Ring-opening polymerizations using a flow reactor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,271, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.) and THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Stanford, Calif.).

"Ring-opening polymerizations using a flow reactor" was invented by Nathaniel H. Park (San Jose, Calif.), James L. Hedrick (Pleasanton, Calif.), Victoria A. Piunova (Los Gatos, Calif.), Dmitry Zubarev (San Jose, Calif.), Gavin O. Jones (San Jose, Calif.), Robert M. Waymouth (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Binhong Lin (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques regarding the synthesis of one or more polymers through one or more ring-opening polymeriz...