ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,434, issued on May 13, was assigned to PolyJoule Inc. (Billerica, Mass.).

"High yield storage materials" was invented by Eli Paster (Boston), Taizoon Canteenwala (Lowell, Mass.), Eliza Spear (Somerville, Mass.), Zhengguo Zhu (Chelmsford, Mass.) and Timothy Manning Swager (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Strong and flexible electrically conductive polymers comprising hydrogen-bondable moieties are described herein. The electrically conductive polymers are formed by polymerizing an electron donating aromatic monomer in the presence of an oxidant, solvent, and/or hydrogen-bondable additive, such as an additive comprising a ...