ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,420, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to University of Oregon (Eugene, Ore.).
"Heated solution electrospinning" was invented by Paul D. Dalton (Eugene, Ore.) and Ievgenii Liashenko (Eugene, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the disclosure concern a device including a nozzle configured to receive a heated polymer solution from a reservoir and a power supply configured to generate an electrostatic field between a tip portion of the nozzle and a substrate so as to draw a charged jet of the heated polymer solution out of the tip portion of the nozzle toward a substrate situated at an operating distance from the tip port...