US Patent Issued to OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL on July 22 for "Polymer, mechanical stress sensor, method for detecting mechanical stress, method for preparing polymer, copper complex and method for preparing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,800, issued on July 22, was assigned to OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL Corp. (Okinawa, Japan).

"Polymer, mechanical stress sensor, method for detecting mechanical stress, method for preparing polymer, copper complex and method for preparing same" was invented by Julia Khusnutdinova (Kunigami-gun Okinawa, Japan) and Ayumu Karimata (Kunigami-gun Okinawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polymer comprising a polymer chain moiety and a copper complex moiety (1) is useful as a mechanoresponsive luminescent material. R1 and R2 are linking groups to the polymer chain moiety; R3 to R6 are H or substituent."

The pat...