ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,077, issued on July 15, was assigned to Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Connection structure of carbon nanotube wire" was invented by Kazuki Sugihara (Tokyo) and Hideki Aizawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection structure of a carbon nanotube wire includes a joint between the carbon nanotube wire and the connection target. For example, a connection structure of a carbon nanotube wire includes a carbon nanotube wire, and, a connection target to which the carbon nanotube wire is connected. The connection structure further includes a conducting wire with higher solder wettability than the carbon nanotube wire, a pene...