ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,056, issued on May 20, was assigned to Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Liquid metal particle-assembled network synthesized in various polymers, and manufacturing method of the same" was invented by Jiheong Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Wonbeom Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hyunjun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments relate to a liquid metal particle-assembled network synthesized in various polymers and a method of manufacturing the same. The liquid metal particle-assembled network is configured to include a polymer matrix, first liquid metal particle...