ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,449, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Kurashiki Boseki K.K. (Okayama, Japan).

"Fiber-reinforced resin pultruded product and method for producing same" was invented by Katsuhiko Yokota (Osaka, Japan), Tadaharu Tanaka (Osaka, Japan) and Yoichi Hiraishi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a fiber-reinforced resin pultruded product obtained by molding a fiber sheet, wherein the fiber sheet is a semi-preg sheet in which a thermoplastic resin serving as a matrix for the pultruded product is fused to at least a fiber surface, and, in the fiber-reinforced resin pultruded product, the fiber sheet has been pultruded, and t...