ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,029, issued on July 7, was assigned to SILOXENE AG (Bruttisellen, Switzerland).

"Functionalized Q-T-siloxane-based polymeric materials with low siloxane ring content, specific degree of polymerization, and method for preparing same" was invented by Matthias Koebel (Bruttisellen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention pertains to a functionalized polymeric liquid polysiloxane material comprising non-organofunctional Q-type siloxane moieties and mono-organofunctional T-type siloxane moieties, wherein the material comprises a limited low amount of four-membered Q2-type and/or Q3-type siloxane ring species relati...