US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK on March 17 for "Modified wood and transparent wood composites, and systems and methods for forming and use thereof" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,551, issued on March 17, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Md.).

"Modified wood and transparent wood composites, and systems and methods for forming and use thereof" was invented by Liangbing Hu (Rockville, Md.), Ruiyu Mi (Beijing), Qinqin Xia (Harbin, China), Chaoji Chen (Wuhan, China) and Tian Li (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a material comprises a contiguous block of chemically-modified wood infiltrated with an index-matching polymer. The contiguous block has a first section that is substantially transparent to light and a second section that is translu...