US Patent Issued to ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) on Oct. 21 for "Composition and method for the preparation of sheets, films, fibers, and molded parts" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,513, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Composition and method for the preparation of sheets, films, fibers, and molded parts" was invented by Shuichi Haraguchi (St-Sulpice Vd, Switzerland), Holger Frauenrath (Epalinges, Switzerland), Oguzhan Oguz (Dietlikon, Switzerland) and Daniel Gorl (Denges, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention describes a composition containing a) a functionalized polymer 10 that comprises at least one polyester segment 13 and at least one, in particular at least two, polymer aggregating segment 11, 12 capable of formi...