US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Oct. 27 for "Evergreen upcycling process for thermosets and thermoplastics with deconstructable and upgradable monomers" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,377, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Evergreen upcycling process for thermosets and thermoplastics with deconstructable and upgradable monomers" was invented by Jeffrey S. Moore (Urbana, Ill.), Katherine J. Stawiasz (Urbana, Ill.), Benjamin A. Suslick (Urbana, Ill.), Diego M. Alzate-Sanchez (Urbana, Ill.) and Oleg Davydovich (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for recycling oligomeric units derived from a first polymer into a second polymer are provided herein. Methods of preparing oligomeric macromonomers from oligomeric units are further provid...