US Patent Issued to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 17 for "Grafting process of a Diels Alder adduct onto polypropylene" (Dutch, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,892, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V. (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands).

"Grafting process of a Diels Alder adduct onto polypropylene" was invented by Gert Boven (Steenbergen, Netherlands), Francesco Picchioni (Groningen, Netherlands), Klaas Remerie (Maastricht, Netherlands), Chandrashekhar Lingannaiah (Bangalore, India), Senthil Kumar Minor (Chennai, India) and Jerome Vachon (Maastricht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to maleic acid derivatives polar group-containing polypropylene, the process to making the same by reactive extrusion in presence of a grafting age...