ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,897, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to INOAC Corp. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Fiber-reinforced resin molded body and production method thereof, fiber-reinforced resin molding prepreg, fiber-reinforced molded body and production method of fiber-reinforced molded body and resin sheet, fiber-reinforced sandwich composite, and production method of fiberreinforced molded body" was invented by Yoshinori Sugiura (Anjo, Japan), Naoya Harata (Anjo, Japan), Tatsuhiko Yasui (Anjo, Japan) and Naoyuki Tanabe (Kaizu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for producing a fiber-reinforced resin molded body (10) by heat-compressing fiber substra...