US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS on Sept. 29 for "Efficient method of synthesizing linear oligomers and application to frontal ring-opening metathesis polymerization" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,318, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Ill.).

"Efficient method of synthesizing linear oligomers and application to frontal ring-opening metathesis polymerization" was invented by Jeffrey S. Moore (Urbana, Ill.), Nancy R. Sottos (Urbana, Ill.), Benjamin A. Suslick (Urbana, Ill.), Diego M. Alzate-Sanchez (Urbana, Ill.) and Nil A. Parikh (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of preparing oligomers including heating a mixture of an amount of a functionalized cycloalkene, an amount of a chain transfer agent, a phosphite ester, and a catalyst, a degree of polym...