US Patent Issued to NIPPON SHOKUBAI on April 21 for "Sulfur-containing polymer, method for producing same, and sulfur-containing polymer composition" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,675, issued on April 21, was assigned to NIPPON SHOKUBAI Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Sulfur-containing polymer, method for producing same, and sulfur-containing polymer composition" was invented by Kenichi Oyaizu (Tokyo), Kanta Matsushima (Tokyo), Seigo Watanabe (Tokyo), Teru Takayama (Tokyo), Hiromichi Nishio (Tokyo), Tomohiro Miura (Tokyo), Jun-ichi Nakamura (Osaka, Japan), Takeo Kawase (Osaka, Japan), Teruhisa Fujibayashi (Osaka, Japan) and Junya Kimura (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention aims to provide a polymer material that has a high refractive index and can be suitably used for applications such...