US Patent Issued to Leibniz-Institut fur Neue Materialien gemeinnutzige on April 8 for "Nanostructured composite materials with self-healing properties" (German, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,951, issued on April 8, was assigned to Leibniz-Institut fur Neue Materialien gemeinnutzige GmbH (Saarbrucken, Germany).

"Nanostructured composite materials with self-healing properties" was invented by Carsten Becker-Willinger (Saarbrucken, Germany), Budiman Ali (Saarbrucken, Germany), Jessica Brunke (St. Gallen, Switzerland), Gerhard Wenz (St. Ingbert, Germany) and Devid Hero (Losheim am See, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-healing composite material includes at least one cross-linked polyrotaxane and at least one organically modified inorganic hybrid material which comprises functional groups (B) or at least one type...