US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on May 27 for "High strength and high modulus carbon fibers" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,711, issued on May 27, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"High strength and high modulus carbon fibers" was invented by Satish Kumar (Atlanta), Han Gi Chae (Atlanta), Bradley A. Newcomb (Atlanta), Prabhakar V. Gulgunje (Atlanta), Yaodong Liu (Atlanta), Kishor K. Gupta (Atlanta) and Manjeshwar G. Kamath (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of making a carbon fiber, PAN (poly(acrylonitrile-co methacrylic acid)) is dissolved into a solvent to form a PAN solution. The PAN solution is extruded through a spinneret, thereby generating at least one precursor fiber. The precursor fiber is passed through a c...