US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on March 31 for "Color changing coaxial polymer fibers" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,204, issued on March 31, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Color changing coaxial polymer fibers" was invented by Jeffrey G. Lundin (Burke, Va.), Matthew D. Thum (Annapolis, Md.), Jakub Kolacz (Alexandria, Va.) and Daniel Ratchford (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a fiber having a sheath including a polymer and a core including a non-cholesteric liquid crystal. The sheath is transparent to visible light. The fiber may an average diameter of no more than 10 microns, and at least 90% of the fiber has a diamet...