US Patent Issued to The Florida State University Research Foundation on Sept. 23 for "Photomechanical polymers, compositions, and methods" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,494, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to The Florida State University Research Foundation Inc. (Tallahassee, Fla.).

"Photomechanical polymers, compositions, and methods" was invented by Kenneth Hanson (Tallahassee, Fla.), William Oates (Tallahassee, Fla.), Drake Beery (Tallahassee, Fla.) and Eugenia Stanisauskis (Tallahassee, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Photopolymers, monomers, compositions including photopolymers and a dopant, and methods, including methods for eliciting a photomechanical response. The dopant may be a triplet sensitizing dopant. The exposing of compositions to the one or more wavelengths of electromagnetic ...