US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on March 25 for "Compositions and methods for inhibiting ice formation on surfaces" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,511, issued on March 25, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Compositions and methods for inhibiting ice formation on surfaces" was invented by Sushant Anand (Chicago), Rukmava Chatterjee (Chicago) and Hassan Bararnia (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides methods for inhibiting the formation of ice on a surface, reducing contact line pinning at a water-solid interface, inhibiting the transition of water from a vapor state to a solid state (i.e., desublimation), and decreasing adhesion of a substance to a surface, which methods comprise, in various aspe...