ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,053, issued on March 24, was assigned to Synthomer Adhesive Technologies LLC (Beachwood, Ohio).

"Silane functionalized rosins" was invented by Terri Roxanne Carvagno (Church Hill, Tenn.), Liu Deng (Kingsport, Tenn.), Mark Thomas Arigo (Hudson, Ohio), Mark William Ingratta (Copley, Ohio), Michaela Hofbauer (Kingsport, Tenn.), Rui Xie (Pearland, Texas), Stephen Franklin Hatfield (Kingsport, Tenn.), Timothy Harold Blayney (Piney Flats, Tenn.) and Thauming Kuo (Kingsport, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are silane functionalized rosins having multiple functionalities. Such silane functionalized rosins are curable and thus...