US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Jan. 27 for "Elastomer with tunable properties and method of rapidly forming the elastomer" (Illinois, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,441, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Elastomer with tunable properties and method of rapidly forming the elastomer" was invented by Nancy R. Sottos (Champaign, Ill.), Jeffrey S. Moore (Savoy, Ill.), Leon M. Dean (Minneapolis), Qiong Wu (Champaign, Ill.) and Omar Alshangiti (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of rapidly forming an elastomer with tunable properties is described herein. The method includes preparing a monomer solution comprising a catalyst and one or more monomers including 1,5-cyclooctadiene (COD). The one or more monomers may fur...