US Patent Issued to Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute on Oct. 27 for "Energy absorbing foam material and method of using thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,388, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co. Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Energy absorbing foam material and method of using thereof" was invented by Yong Zhu (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Jianping Han (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Chenmin Liu (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an energy absorbing foam material includes at least one shape memory polymer foam having a non-impact resistant configuration in a first force-application time, an impact resistant configuration in a second force-application time at a working temperature, a first glass tra...