US Patent Issued to University of Southern California on Nov. 4 for "Recovery and reuse of acid digested amine/epoxy-based composite matrices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,063, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

"Recovery and reuse of acid digested amine/epoxy-based composite matrices" was invented by Travis J. Williams (Los Angeles), Steven Nutt (Los Angeles), Yijia Ma (Los Angeles) and Carlos Navarro (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for recycling matrix residues includes steps of degrading a target epoxy to form matrix residues, collecting the matrix residues, and adding the matrix residues into a polymer-forming formulation. Characteristically, the polymer-forming formulation includes multifunctional anhydride monomers and polyfuncti...