Patent 7361710 was granted and assigned to Southern Diversified Products, LLC on April, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An ethylenically unsaturated vegetable oil is modified by the addition of an enophile or dienophile having an acid, ester or anhydride functionality. The modified vegetable oil is then reacted with a functional vinyl monomer to form a vegetable oil derivative. The vegetable oil derivative is useful in forming latexes and coatings.