ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,974, issued on March 25, was assigned to HUZHOU JIN TAI CONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Huzhou, China).

"Stranded wire conductors and methods for manufacturing stranded wires" was invented by Xuebin Li (Huzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stranded wire conductor and a method for manufacturing a stranded wire, wherein the stranded wire conductor is made of a plurality of composite wire monofilaments stranded together, each having a nickel-tantalum-tungsten core wire, a conductive alloy tube wrapped around an outside of the nickel-tantalum-tungsten core wire, and a plating disposed on an outside of the conductive alloy tube....