ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,653, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to General Nano LLC (Cincinnati).

"Electrically-conductive broad good" was invented by Joseph E. Sprengard (Cincinnati), Larry Allen Christy (Cincinnati) and Jae Hak Kim (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A electrically-conductive broad good having an electrically-conductive nonwoven veil comprising with a plurality of metal-coated fibers looped randomly throughout the nonwoven veil and a binder material binding the plurality of metal-coated fibers together into the nonwoven veil and a first metal coating covering the conductive nonwoven veil wherein the first metal coating increases th...