US Patent Issued to Miwon North America on March 17 for "Acrylic emulsions modified with functional (meth)acrylates to enable crosslinking" (Pennsylvania, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,342, issued on March 17, was assigned to Miwon North America Inc. (Exton, Pa.).

"Acrylic emulsions modified with functional (meth)acrylates to enable crosslinking" was invented by James E. Goodrich (Downingtown, Pa.) and Juan G. Nunez (Downers Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for crosslinking an acrylic emulsion with a (meth)acrylate monomer or a (meth)acrylate oligomer including adding a base acrylic emulsion to a vessel, adding at least one (meth)acrylate crosslinker to the vessel, incorporating the at least one (meth)acrylate crosslinker into the base acrylic emulsion to create a ...