US Patent Issued to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System on June 3 for "Processability of polymeric substrates and related methods" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,512, issued on June 3, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Processability of polymeric substrates and related methods" was invented by Taylor Ware (Austin, Texas) and Walter Voit (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses a method for adhering a metal layer to a polymer substrate and device manufacture therefrom. The metal layer is deposited on a sacrificial substrate of a mold to form part of an interior surface of the mold, and a solution of monomers is deposited on the metal layer. The monomers are then polymerized together to form the polymer substrate on th...