US Patent Issued to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, MCMASTER UNIVERSITY on Aug. 4 for "Superabsorbent polymers based on copolymers of charged monomers and neutral monomers" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,356, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Inc. (Neenah, Wis.) and MCMASTER UNIVERSITY (Hamilton, Canada).

"Superabsorbent polymers based on copolymers of charged monomers and neutral monomers" was invented by Xuedong Song (Alpharetta, Ga.), Kaiyuan Yang (Cumming, Ga.), Todd Ryan Hoare (Ancaster, Canada) and Zohreh Jomeh Farsangi (Hamilton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are superabsorbent polymers that are made of copolymers of charged monomer and neutral monomers, where the neutral monomers are alkyl or aryl end-capped neutral and hydrophilic monomers that lack free hydroxyl groups and ha...