ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,976, issued on June 2, was assigned to Power2Polymers GmbH (Aachen, Germany).

"Isocyanate-terminated prepolymers based on polyoxymethylene-polyoxyalkylene block copolymers, process for the preparation and use thereof" was invented by Anna-Marie Zorn (Ettlingen, Germany), Christoph Thiebes (Cologne, Germany), Beate Baumbach (Burscheid, Germany), Annika Hill (Cologne, Germany), Michael Weinkraut (Langenfeld, Germany) and Mike Schuetze (Leverkusen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to isocyanate-terminated prepolymers based on polyoxymethylene-polyoxyalkylene block copolymers, to a process for their pre...