US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on Sept. 22 for "Formamide monomers and polymers synthesized therefrom" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,928, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Formamide monomers and polymers synthesized therefrom" was invented by Padma Gopalan (Madison, Wis.), Balamurugan Ayyakkalai (Madison, Wis.) and Ri Chen (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Formamide group-containing monomers and polymers made by polymerizing the monomers are provided. Also provided are methods of polymerizing the monomers and methods of synthesizing functionalized polymers by pre- and/or post-polymerization functionalization. The monomers are non-toxic and can generate highly reactive isocyanate and isonitrile p...