US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on March 17 for "Boron nitride/boron nitride nanotube composite fibers and methods of making and use thereof" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,106, issued on March 17, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Boron nitride/boron nitride nanotube composite fibers and methods of making and use thereof" was invented by Satish Kumar (Atlanta), Keenan Mintz (Atlanta), Kishor Kumar Gupta (Atlanta) and Casey Smith (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are boron nitride/boron nitride nanotube composite fibers and methods of making and use thereof. For example, disclosed herein are methods of making a boron nitride/boron nitride nanotube composite fiber by spinning a mixture comprising a plurality of boron nitride nanotubes, a polymeric boron nitri...