US Patent Issued to Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College on Oct. 20 for "Compositions and methods of making multifunctional organogels" (Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,768, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, La.).

"Compositions and methods of making multifunctional organogels" was invented by Xiaming Feng (Baton Rouge, La.) and Guoqiang Li (Baton Rouge, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, the disclosure relates to two-way shape memory organogels including at least a crosslinked polymer and an organic free phase. In a further aspect, the un-crosslinked polymer or polymer precursor such as, for example, an oligomer, can be crosslinked by a photoinitiator through free-radical polymeri...