ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,021, issued on July 7, was assigned to Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (Paris), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris), Nantes Universite (Nantes, France), Ecole Nationale Veterinaire Agroalimentaire et de l'Alimentation (Nantes, France) and Universite de Rennes (Rennes, France).
"Elastomeric polymer material with shape memory properties and method for preparing such a material" was invented by Benedicte Bakan (Nantes, France), Didier Marion (Nantes, France), Denis Lourdin (Suce sur Erdre, France), Mathilde Marc (Saint Germain en Cogles, France), Christelle Lopez (Pace, France), Eric Leroy (Saint Etienne de Montluc, ...