US Patent Issued to W. L. Gore & Associates on Dec. 16 for "Structured dense fluoropolymer films and methods of making same" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,492, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to W. L. Gore & Associates Inc. (Newark, Del.).

"Structured dense fluoropolymer films and methods of making same" was invented by Michael E. Kennedy (Oxford, Pa.) and Shaofeng Ran (Kennet Square, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structured fluoropolymer film including a plurality of structures having a height at least two times a thickness of a corresponding unstructured fluoropolymer film and at least a 20% increase in displacement induction period when compared to the corresponding unstructured fluoropolymer film when measured in a biaxial tensile curve at a temperature of about 125deg C. In...