US Patent Issued to Lawrence Livermore National Security, The Texas A&M University System on Jan. 28 for "Processable, tunable thiol-ene crosslinked polyurethane shape memory polymers" (California, Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,159, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.) and The Texas A&M University System (College Station, Texas).

"Processable, tunable thiol-ene crosslinked polyurethane shape memory polymers" was invented by Keith Hearon (Boston), Landon D. Nash (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Thomas Wilson (San Leandro, Calif.), Duncan J. Maitland (College Station, Texas) and Mark A. Wierzbicki (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes a platform shape memory polymer system. Such an embodiment exhibits a blend of tunable, high performance mechanical attributes in combination...