ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,372, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).
"High impact strength bismaleimide plastics" was invented by Mohammad Hamza Kirmani (Atlanta), Prabhakar Gulgunje (Atlanta) and Satish Kumar (Atlanta).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of making a material, a bismaleimide system is heated to generate a bismaleimide liquid (110). The bismaleimide liquid is degassed (114) to generate a degassed bismaleimide liquid. At least one of high speed shear mixing and probe sonication is performed to the degassed bismaleimide liquid to generate a highly mixed bismaleimide liquid phase (112). The highly mixed bis...