US Patent Issued to Merck Patent on Dec. 2 for "Non-thiol nitrogen based hydrophobic polymer brush materials and use thereof for modification of substrate surfaces" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,344, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Merck Patent GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany).

"Non-thiol nitrogen based hydrophobic polymer brush materials and use thereof for modification of substrate surfaces" was invented by Durairaj Baskaran (Bridgewater, N.J.), Md S. Rahman (Flemington, N.J.) and Sachin Bobade (Somerville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of this invention is a novel functional polymer having a polydispersity from 1 to about 1.12 comprising at least one reactive moiety, selected from a moiety comprising at least one N-coordinative functional group having at least one lone pair of electrons, a moiety comprising a d...