ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,263, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Parker-Hannifin Corp. (Cleveland).

"Conductive polyaspartic ester based compositions" was invented by Brian Flaherty (Chelmsford, Mass.), Jeremy Gershonowitz (Cambridge, Mass.) and George Spies (Wakefield, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conductive composition for conductive coatings, gap fillers, caulks and fairing compounds that are useful for EMI shielding, electrical grounding, lightning strike protection, and reduced radar cross-section for low observability (LO), with improved resistance to exposure to water, oil and other fluids contains at least one aspartic ester, at least one i...