US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on May 26 for "Method of manufacture of a resin" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,618, issued on May 26, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Method of manufacture of a resin" was invented by Jack Forman (Cambridge, Mass.), Ozgun Kilic Afsar (Cambridge, Mass.), Hsin-Ju Lin (Cambridge, Mass.), Cedric Honnet (Cambridge, Mass.), Neil Gershenfeld (Cambridge, Mass.) and Hiroshi Ishii (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Liquid Crystal Elastomer (LCE) fibers, an apparatus for manufacturing, and a method for using the apparatus are provided. LCE fibers formed from each of a plurality of resin recipes can undergo reversible temperature driven actuation of the fiber. Each of...