US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Nov. 25 for "High-energy density shape memory polymers using strain-induced supramolecular nanostructures" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,952, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"High-energy density shape memory polymers using strain-induced supramolecular nanostructures" was invented by Zhenan Bao (Stanford, Calif.), Chris Cooper (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shayla Nikzad (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Periodic placement of directional dynamic bonding units along a flexible polymer backbone enables the formation of large supramolecular structures during strain. These structures, which form due to the alignment of stretched backbone chains, lock the stretched chains in their...