US Patent Issued to Lawrence Livermore National Security, The Texas A&M University System on Feb. 24 for "Mechanical reticulation of polymeric-based closed cell foams" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,825, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.) and The Texas A&M University System (College Station, Texas).

"Mechanical reticulation of polymeric-based closed cell foams" was invented by Jennifer N. Rodriguez (Lathrop, Calif.), Duncan J. Maitland (College Station, Texas) and Thomas S. Wilson (San Leandro, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Polymeric based closed cell foams, such as shape memory polymer foams, contain bubbles. Making these bubbles continuous is called reticulation. Disclosed are embodiments of a device and method to controllably reticulate polymer-based closed ...