ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,909, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to University of Massachusetts (Boston).

"Oxygen and moisture barrier compositions and related methods" was invented by Jayant Kumar (Boston), Ramaswamy Nagarajan (Boston), Siddhant Iyer (Boston), Ravi Mosurkal (Boston), Lian Li (Boston) and Claire Lepont (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a curable composition with high optical transparency and good oxygen and moisture barrier properties, compositions for making the same, and methods of making and of using the same."

The patent was filed on Dec. 28, 2023, under Application No. 18/398,599.

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