US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Colorado on June 3 for "Liquid crystal elastomer compositions and methods of making the same" (Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,861, issued on June 3, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver).

"Liquid crystal elastomer compositions and methods of making the same" was invented by Timothy White (Longmont, Colo.), Tayler Hebner (Longmont, Colo.), Joselle McCracken (Westminister, Colo.), Brian Donovan (Redwood City, Calif.), Christopher Bowman (Boulder, Colo.) and Grant Bauman (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) formed from liquid crystalline monomers having 4-(6-(acryloyloxy)n-oxy)phenyl-4-(6-(acryloyloxy)m-oxy)benzoate (CnBAPE) as the mesogenic core. The LCEs have improved thermotropic charact...