US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on June 23 for "Highly aromatic and liquid-crystalline homo-polyimides with aromatic endgroups and crosslinked products therefrom" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,575, issued on June 23, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

"Highly aromatic and liquid-crystalline homo-polyimides with aromatic endgroups and crosslinked products therefrom" was invented by Loon-Seng Tan (Centerville, Ohio), Zhenning Yu (Beavercreek, Ohio), Bingqian Zheng (Miamisburg, Ohio) and Hilmar Koerner (Beavercreek, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Applicants disclose a family of low-molecular-weight, main-chain thermotropic liquid-crystalline polyimides (TLC-PI) that are thermally crosslinkable and processes of making and using same. Such...