US Patent Issued to The Florida State University Research Foundation on Aug. 11 for "Material systems and methods of manufacture for auxetic foams" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,132, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Florida State University Research Foundation Inc. (Tallahassee, Fla.).

"Material systems and methods of manufacture for auxetic foams" was invented by Changchun Zeng (Tallahassee, Fla.) and Yan Li (Tallahassee, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel material for producing auxetic foams is disclosed. The material comprises a multiphase, multicomponent polymer foam with a filler polymer having a carefully selected glass transition temperature. Novel methods for producing auxetic foams from the material are also disclosed that consistently, reliably and quickly produce auxetic polyurethan...