US Patent Issued to Wacker Chemie on March 3 for "Process for preparing aqueous polymer dispersions in a tubular reactor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,553, issued on March 3, was assigned to Wacker Chemie AG (Munich).

"Process for preparing aqueous polymer dispersions in a tubular reactor" was invented by Michael Angerer (Burghausen, Germany), Robert Braunsperger (Emmerting, Germany) and Peter SchultheiB (Altotting, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for preparing vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymers in the form of an aqueous dispersion. The process includes providing an aqueous dispersion of vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymers and subjecting the aqueous dispersion of vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymers to radically initiated emulsion polymerization in a continuously operate...