US Patent Issued to DOWA THERMOTECH, MEIJONANO CARBON, OSAKA SODA on Feb. 3 for "Carbon nanotube collection apparatus, carbon nanotube manufacturing apparatus, and carbon nanotube collection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,421, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to DOWA THERMOTECH Co. LTD. (Tokyo), MEIJONANO CARBON Co. LTD. (Aichi, Japan) and OSAKA SODA Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Carbon nanotube collection apparatus, carbon nanotube manufacturing apparatus, and carbon nanotube collection method" was invented by Shinya Chou (Aichi, Japan), Maya Kamioka (Aichi, Japan), Takahiro Fujita (Aichi, Japan), Takeshi Hashimoto (Aichi, Japan), Kei Takano (Aichi, Japan) and Hisato Kagawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carbon nanotube collection apparatus includes: a collection room having an opening part communicating with a carbon nanotube production app...