ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,904, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Covestro Deutschland AG (Leverkusen, Germany).

"Polyphosphazene and molding compound containing the polyphosphazene" was invented by Maxime Paven (Mainz, Germany), Vera Taschner (Langenfeld, Germany), Sven Hobeika (Solingen, Germany), Thomas Eckel (Dormagen, Germany), Stamo Mentizi (Cologne, Germany), Igor Pochorovski (Bergisch Gladbach, Germany), Andrij Pich (Herzogenrath, Germany), Ayse Deniz (Neuss, Germany) and Sven Buschmann (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a polyphosphazene produced by a method comprising the steps a) and b): a) converting an in par...