US Patent Issued to RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE on July 22 for "Method of making a microfiber including biomass" (New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,010, issued on July 22, was assigned to RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE (Troy, N.Y.).

"Method of making a microfiber including biomass" was invented by Ranodhi Nilochani Udangawa (Troy, N.Y.), Charles Frederick Willard (Cambridge, Mass.), Chiara Diamante Mancinelli (Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.), Caitlyn A. Chapman (Vernon, Conn.), Robert John Linhardt (Albany, N.Y.) and Trevor John Simmons (Troy, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network of microfibers are fabricated with a core-shell construction from sustainable materials, where the core includes a phase-change material, such as coconut oil, and the shell includes a biomass, such a...