MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517058214 A) filed by Dow Global Technologies Llc, Midland, U.S.A., on June 17, for 'method of making a morphology-improved polyethylene powder.'

Inventor(s) include Deshpande, Kishori; Darunte, Lalit A.; and Lakhe, Pritishma.

The application for the patent was published on July 4, under issue no. 27/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A method of making a morphology-improved polyethylene powder, the method comprising: contacting ethylene with a reactive olefin prepolymer in a gas phase reactor to make a morphology-improved polyethylene powder via gas phase polymerization; wherein the reactive olefin prepolymer comprises a component that is a polyolefin and a component that is an active metallocene derivative of a spray-dried silica-supported metallocene catalyst; wherein the reactive olefin prepolymer has a prepolymer/catalyst weight/weight ratio from 10:1.0 to 50:1.0, wherein the prepolymer weight is the total weight of the reactive olefin prepolymer and the catalyst weight is the weight of the spray-dried silica-supported metallocene catalyst."

The patent application was internationally filed on Dec. 11, 2023, under International application No.PCT/US2023/083278.

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