US Patent Issued to University of Guelph on June 16 for "Precursor compounds of ester compounds" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,092, issued on June 16, was assigned to University of Guelph (Guelph, Canada).

"Precursor compounds of ester compounds" was invented by Amr Zaitoon (Guelph, Canada), Loong-Tak Lim (Guelph, Canada) and Cynthia Scott-Dupree (Fergus, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to compounds of the formula (I) which are precursor compounds of esters, whereby upon hydrolysis of the precursor compound, an ester compound is released. This ester precursor approach can be useful for applications where controlled release of, for example, ethyl formate, is beneficial."

The patent was filed on May 28, 2020, under Applica...