US Patent Issued to VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES on Dec. 2 for "Solvent-resistant self-crosslinked poly(ether imide)s" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,370, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES INC. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Solvent-resistant self-crosslinked poly(ether imide)s" was invented by Guoliang Liu (Blacksburg, Va.), Zhen Xu (Blacksburg, Va.), Alan Roger Esker (Blacksburg, Va.) and Gehui Liu (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, the disclosure relates to azide-containing poly(ether imide) polymers (PEIs; N3-PEI-N3) synthesized via a heterogenous diazotizationazidation reaction. In one aspect, the azide-containing PEIs can be solution-cast into films and then thermally crosslinked. In a further aspect, the crosslinked PEIs...