ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,318, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Waltham, Mass.) and THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Lowell, Mass.).

"Temperature-stabilization of convertible functional inks by disruption of conduction paths" was invented by Yuri Piro (Boston), Oshadha Ranasingha (Salem, N.H.), Andrew M. Luce (Marlborough, Mass.), Edward D. Kingsley (Stow, Mass.), Alkim Akyurtlu (Arlington, Mass.) and Craig A. Armiento (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink stabilizing composition includes a polymeric network including an acrylate polymer and a plurality of high aspect ratio particles each having an aspect ratio of about 2:1 to abou...