US Patent Issued to CENTROTHERM INTERNATIONAL on Aug. 5 for "Method and device for stabilizing precursor fibers or films for producing carbon fibers or films" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,701, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to CENTROTHERM INTERNATIONAL AG (Blaubeuren, Germany).

"Method and device for stabilizing precursor fibers or films for producing carbon fibers or films" was invented by Manuel Clauss (Ostfildern, Germany), Andreas Keller (Opfingen, Germany), Erik Frank (Dornstadt, Germany), Volker Bauch (Zell unter Aichelberg, Germany), Frank Hermanutz (Leonberg, Germany), Michael R. Buchmeiser (Remshalden, Germany) and Gunter Fauth (Urbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for stabilizing precursor fibers for the production of carbon fibers is disclosed. The process comprises the following steps: c...