ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,089, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NANOMETICS LLC (La Jolla, Calif.).

"Chemically cross-linked elastomers formed by michael addition and compositions comprising such elastomers" was invented by Andrew Bernard Mahon (San Francisco), Michael Joseph Isaacman (New York) and Steven Isaacman (Oak Beach, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gel compositions containing a Michael addition elastomer formed from the reaction of a reactant molecule containing two or more Michael acceptor groups and a molecule containing one or Michael donor group with two or more active hydrogens in its molecule and capable of forming 1,4-addition products w...