Patent ID: 7323531

Claim:
A fluorescent polysiloxane having the following moiety in it: wherein n is selected from the group consisting of 1-500; wherein R 1 is selected from the group consisting of compounds which have the structure of a fluorescent organic alcohol albeit without a hydrogen that is present in an —OH group of the alcohol; wherein A 1 indicates that R 1 is directly linked to the silicon through an oxygen present in R 1; wherein R 2 is selected from the group consisting of alkyl groups of less than four carbons, R 3 —O (wherein R 3 is an alkyl group of less than four carbons), and A 1 -R 1 (wherein if R 2 is A 1 -R 1 , this A 1 -R 1 need not necessarily be the same as the other A 1 -R 1 linked to the same silicon); and wherein the alcohol that the polysiloxane was formed from is selected from the group consisting of the following compounds: