ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,804, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to FORMOSA PLASTICS Corp. (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

"Manufacturing method for carbon fiber" was invented by Wen-Ju Chou (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Ching-Wen Chen (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Kun-Yeh Tsai (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Chia-Chi Hung (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Chia-Chun Hsieh (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Long-Tyan Hwang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing method for a carbon fiber includes the following steps. A first monomer and a second monomer are dissolved in a first solvent, and a polymerization reaction is performed to form a copolymerized polymer, in which the first monomer includes ac...