US Patent Issued to EKC Technology on Aug. 19 for "Silver nanowire and noble-metal coated silver nanowire conductive polymer composites with low loading percolation conduction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,536, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to EKC Technology Inc. (Hayward, Calif.).

"Silver nanowire and noble-metal coated silver nanowire conductive polymer composites with low loading percolation conduction" was invented by Ajay Virkar (San Mateo, Calif.), Xiqiang Yang (Hayward, Calif.), Nazim Uddin (Hayward, Calif.) and Peikang Liu (Claremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Composite materials with noble metal coated silver nanowires loaded into polymer are described. The composite materials may have resistivities of no more than about 100 Ohm-cm, or from about 100 Ohm-cm to about 1x1011 Ohm-cm depending on the amount of noble ...