ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 10 -- 3M Innovative Properties, St. Paul, Minnesota, has been assigned a patent (9,908,837) developed by five co-inventors for a "method for preparing (meth)acrylates of biobased alcohols and polymers thereof." The co-inventors are Joshua L. Colby, Lino Lakes, Minnesota, Aaron E. Hutt, St. Paul, Minnesota, Terence D. Spawn, Stillwater, Minnesota, Jason D. Clapper, Lino Lakes, Minnesota, and Tabitha A. Clem, Woodbury, Minnesota. The abstract states: "Polymers, particularly . . .