US Patent Issued to THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY on July 1 for "Icephobic surfaces and methods of producing the same" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,765, issued on July 1, was assigned to THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (Washington).

"Icephobic surfaces and methods of producing the same" was invented by Stephen Hsu (Germantown, Md.) and Govindaiah Patakamuri (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An icephobic substrate includes a base substrate and an icephobic coating on a first surface of the base substrate, the icephobic coating comprising nanoparticles on the first surface of the substrate, carbon nanotubes bound to the nanoparticles, and fluorinated polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) compounds impregnated into and/or onto the carbon nanotubes, wherein the icep...