ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,113, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to PIP Manufacturing Inc. (Latham, N.Y.).

"Type of triple network cooling hydrogel with high compressive and elastic" was invented by Yuyan Wang (Latham, N.Y.), Tianqi Zhou (Latham, N.Y.), Zhixiong Hou (Latham, N.Y.), Rui Luo (Latham, N.Y.), Ling Lin (Latham, N.Y.), Zheng Gu (Latham, N.Y.), Peng Zhou (Latham, N.Y.), Le Liu (Latham, N.Y.), Qingyi Zhao (Latham, N.Y.) and Marc Dudelzak (Latham, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides triple crosslinked cooling hydrogel compositions of high tensile strength, high compressibility, high elasticity, and long cooling period and methods of...