ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,763, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Technion Research and Development Foundation Ltd. (Haifa, Israel).
"Hydrolytically stable self-healing elastomer" was invented by Hossam Haick (Haifa, Israel) and Muhammad Khatib (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a solution-processable self-healing hydrolytically stable elastomer, a method for the preparation thereof, and articles of manufacture comprising the elastomer. The elastomer comprises polymeric chains comprising units of formula (A1), wherein R is a polybutadiene-containing polyurethane; R1 and R1' are independently selected from the group co...