US Patent Issued to SIKA TECHNOLOGY on Jan. 13 for "Branched copolymers as additives for viscosity reduction of mineral binder compositions" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,538, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SIKA TECHNOLOGY AG (Baar, Switzerland).

"Branched copolymers as additives for viscosity reduction of mineral binder compositions" was invented by Jurg Weidmann (Winterthur, Switzerland), Jorg Zimmermann (Winterthur, Switzerland) and Lukas Frunz (Dietlikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The use of branched copolymers of the general structure (I) as additives for increasing the flow rate and for reducing the viscosity of mineral binder compositions. Further, mineral binder compositions including at least one branched copolymer of the general structure (I):"

The patent was filed on N...