US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on Sept. 15 for "All-aromatic liquid-crystalline homo-polyimides with aromatic endgroups and crosslinked products therefrom" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,748, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

"All-aromatic 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), Hilmar Koerner (Beavercreek, Ohio) and Christopher A. Crouse (Waynesville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A family of low-molecular-weight, main-chain thermotropic liquid-crystalline polyimides (TLC-PI) that are crosslinkable is disclosed. These all-aromatic TLC...