US Patent Issued to THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY on Feb. 17 for "Coordinated platinum hydrosilylation catalysts with COOH based ligands" (Indiana, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,876, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY (Bloomington, Ind.).

"Coordinated platinum hydrosilylation catalysts with COOH based ligands" was invented by Steven L. Tait Jr. (Bloomington, Ind.), Iyad Syed Ali (Chesterton, Ind.) and Linxiao Chen (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention describes metal catalysts such as Pt single-site centers on metal oxide supports, e.g., powdered supports, such as MgO, Al2O3, CeO2 or mixtures thereof with phenyl or biphenyl ligands substituted with two or more carboxylic acid groups."

The patent was filed on April 29, 2021, under Application No. 17/...