US Patent Issued to CYTEC INDUSTRIES on March 25 for "Process for preparing carbon fibers from low polydispersity polyacrylonitrile" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,683, issued on March 25, was assigned to CYTEC INDUSTRIES INC. (Princeton, N.J.).

"Process for preparing carbon fibers from low polydispersity polyacrylonitrile" was invented by Jeremy Moskowitz (Mauldin, S.C.), Thomas Taylor (Greenville, S.C.), Amy Tucker (Central, S.C.), Eric Gladden (Easley, S.C.) and Billy Harmon (Simpsonville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a process for producing one or more carbon fiber precursor fibers, particularly by spinning a polymer solution, wherein the polymer has a polydispersity (PDI) of less than or equal to 2, in a coagulation bath with a jet stretch of about...