ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,522, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Ticona LLC (Florence, Ky.).
"Polymer composition for laser direct structuring" was invented by Young Shin Kim (Cincinnati) and Xiaowei Zhang (Union, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser activatable polymer composition is provided. The composition contains at least one laser activatable additive and at least one high naphthenic thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer that contains repeating units derived from naphthenic hydroxycarboxylic and/or dicarboxylic acids in an amount of about 10 mol. % or more. The polymer composition exhibits a dielectric constant of about 5 or less as determin...