ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,280, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to KANEKA Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Synthesis, purification, and properties of ring-opened benzoxazine thermoplastic" was invented by Tianlei Zhou (Pasadena, Texas), Haiqing Yao (Pasadena, Texas) and Masahiko Miyauchi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crosslinkable thermoplastic resin composition may include a polymer formed from the reaction between a bis-benzoxazine monomer and a bifunctional comonomer having phenol, amine, and/or thiol functional groups, wherein the polymer contains at least one crosslinkable group. A method of forming a crosslinkable thermoplastic resin composition ...