US Patent Issued to CARBON HOLDINGS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES on July 15 for "Systems and methods for manufacturing carbon fiber from coal" (Pennsylvania, Wyoming Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,348, issued on July 15, was assigned to CARBON HOLDINGS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES LLC (Ranchester, Wyo.).

"Systems and methods for manufacturing carbon fiber from coal" was invented by Charles Agee Atkins (Sheridan, Wyo.) and Christopher L. Yurchick (McDonald, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments discloses herein relate to methods of processing coal. A method to process coal includes subjecting raw coal to a liquefaction process to form a pitch resin and refining the pitch resin to produce a mesophase pitch. The method further includes subjecting the mesophase pitch to a low crystallinity spinning process to form a raw fiber....