ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,231, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to FORMOSA PLASTICS Corp. (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

"Manufacturing method for carbon fiber" was invented by Chia-Chun Hsieh (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Kun-Yeh Tsai (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Ching-Wen Chen (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Chia-Chi Hung (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Wen-Ju Chou (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: performing an emulsification step that includes uniformly mixing a silicone oil composition and an emulsifier to form an oiling agent, in which the silicone oil composition includes Gamma-divinyltriamine p...