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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 1988
Filed:
Apr. 15, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
John Hobes, Dinslaken, DE;
Karl H Heier, Frankfurt, DE;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08F / ; C08F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
526316 ;
Abstract
Waxy highly branched copolymers having a molecular weight of 500 to 20,000 comprised of at least 60% by weight of ethylene, 1 to 39% by weight of an alkene carboxylic acid ester and/or a vinyl ester and 1-30% by weight of a vinyl ketone produced by polymerization at 100 to 350.degree. C. and a pressure of about 1,000 to 8,000 bar in the presence of a radical forming initiator and in the absence of a solvent useful as oil additives to improve flow characteristics of crude oils and middle distillates derived from crude oil.