ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,780, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Notark Corp. (The Woodlands, Texas).

"Flexible metal clad laminates and methods of preparation thereof" was invented by Jason Tian (Houston), Ruidong Ding (Houston) and Vijay Mhetar (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a film layer for use in flexible metal clad laminates. The film layer comprises a thermosetting composition comprising: a copolymer of (a) a diisoalkenylarene (DIAEA) and (b) a divinylarene (DVA) containing a mixture of m-divinylarene and p-divinylarene, in a mole ratio of (a) to (b) of 15:1 to 1:15; a second polymer; a filler and optional additives....