US Patent Issued to TAIWAN TEXTILE RESEARCH INSTITUTE on May 20 for "Modified polyamide, method of preparing the same, and single component fiber" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,001, issued on May 20, was assigned to TAIWAN TEXTILE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Modified polyamide, method of preparing the same, and single component fiber" was invented by Po-Hsun Huang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Wei-Hsiang Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan), Ta Ko (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Wei-Peng Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modified polyamide is provided, which has a structure of formula (1), in which a+c is 3-8, b is 8-40, m is 3-11, n is 2-16, x is 100-220, and y is 1-6. A method of preparing a modified polyamide is also provided, which includes copolymerizing C4-C12 lactam, C4-C18 linear aliphatic...