US Patent Issued to University of Virginia Patent Foundation on Sept. 9 for "System and method of accelerating polymer fiber stabilization via irradiation treatment" (Virginia, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,554, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.).

"System and method of accelerating polymer fiber stabilization via irradiation treatment" was invented by Xiaodong Li (Charlottesville, Va.), Zan Gao (Willimantic, Conn.), Jiadeng Zhu (Charlottesville, Va.), Yellapu V. Murty (Charlottesville, Va.), Kenneth Brown (Charlottesville, Va.) and Clifton Bumgardner (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new technique for treating non-PAN-based pre-cursor polymeric fibers, tows, yarns, and films has been created for use in making stabilized pre-cursor polymers. By applying...