US Patent Issued to XEROX on Dec. 16 for "Primary amine aerogel and method of manufacture" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,571, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to XEROX Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Primary amine aerogel and method of manufacture" was invented by Kelly Xia (Berkeley, Calif.), Stephen Matthew Meckler (Boulder, Colo.), Jonathan Bachman (San Francisco), Mahati Chintapalli (Mountain View, Calif.) and Gabriel Iftime (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polymer compound containing groups having the chemical structure:where NH2 is a primary amine, and R is not hydrogen, and a polymer backbone wherein two of the R groups are part of the polymer backbone. A method of synthesizing a polymer includes polymerizing amine-convertible monomers t...