US Patent Issued to THe Trustees of the University of Pennyslvania, Lehigh University on Jan. 13 for "Intrinsically reversible superglues" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,755, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to THe Trustees of the University of Pennyslvania (Philadelphia) and Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pa.).

"Intrinsically reversible superglues" was invented by Shu Yang (Blue Bell, Pa.), Jason Christopher Jolly (Philadelphia), Gaoxiang Wu (Philadelphia), Anand Jagota (Bethlehem, Pa.), Zhenping He (Chalfont, Pa.) and Hyesung Cho (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adhesive that includes a polymer network capable of conversion between two different elastic modulus states with essentially no residual stress evolved in conversion between the two different elastic modulus states, wherein the...