US Patent Issued to KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY on April 22 for "Method of preparing heavy oil-derived anisotropic pitch for carbon fiber based on mesogen separation" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,262, issued on April 22, was assigned to KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method of preparing heavy oil-derived anisotropic pitch for carbon fiber based on mesogen separation" was invented by Young-Pyo Jeon (Daejeon, South Korea), Seung Hyun Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Seung Jae Ha (Daejeon, South Korea) and Min Seong Jo (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method of preparing an anisotropic pitch for carbon fiber, and more particularly, to a method of preparing an anisotropic pitch of preparing a pitch having a low softening point by thermally ...