ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,706, issued on July 1, was assigned to Natural Fiber Welding Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).
"Curative and method" was invented by Aaron Kenneth Amstutz (Peoria, Ill.), Luke Michael Haverhals (Peoria, Ill.), Isaiah Amstutz (Canton, Ill.), Skylar Clement (Washington, Ill.) and Peter Francis Walker (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermoset material containing Beta-hydroxyesters wherein said thermoset material is subject to a mechano-chemical process to regenerate an epoxide and a carboxylic acid functionality. A curative for epoxidized plant-based oils and epoxidized natural rubber is created from the reaction between a naturall...