ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,365, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Korea Electronics Technology Institute (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
"Method of manufacturing flexible large-area piezoelectric composite materials" was invented by In Tae Seo (Gwangju-si, South Korea), Hyung Won Kang (Seoul, South Korea) and Seung Ho Han (Gwacheon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a method of manufacturing a piezoelectric composite material. The method includes the steps: wet mixing the ceramic powder, the polymer binder, the plasticizer, and the solvent for 4 to 72 hours to produce the mixed slurry, in which the amount of the polymer binder in the mixed...