US Patent Issued to BROCK UNIVERSITY on Aug. 4 for "Self-healing siloxane elastomers" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,362, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to BROCK UNIVERSITY (St. Catharines, Canada).

"Self-healing siloxane elastomers" was invented by Paul M. Zelisko (Stoney Creek, Canada) and Paria Azadi Namin (Guelph, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to self-healing siloxane elastomers. In particular, the present disclosure relates to self-healing siloxane elastomers comprising at least one siloxane polymer reversibly crosslinked to a second siloxane oligomer or polymer, the reversible cross-linked may be formed at ambient temperature."

The patent was filed on June 14, 2022, under Application No. 17/840,113.

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