ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,630, issued on July 22, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Extrudable ceramic precursor mixtures and methods of use" was invented by Justin Bernard Bult (Geneseo, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extrudable ceramic precursor mixture and method of use includes: an inorganic ceramic-forming component, a first siloxane prepolymer, a second siloxane prepolymer with a different composition than the first siloxane prepolymer, a catalyst adapted to catalyze polymerization of the first siloxane prepolymer with the second siloxane prepolymer into a siloxane-based polymer, and a thermally curable siloxane-based cross-linking ...