ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,005, issued on July 22, was assigned to LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (LIST) (Eschsur-Alzette, Luxembourg).

"Highly compact metal-CNT composites and manufacture thereof" was invented by Antoine Duhain (Esch sur Alzette, Luxembourg), Guillaume Lamblin (Esch sur Alzette, Luxembourg) and Damien Lenoble (Esch sur Alzette, Luxembourg).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing metal-CNT composites is disclosed. The method comprises providing an agglomerate of CNTs, filling interstices of the CNT agglomerate in a plating solution, so as to form a metal phase, in which the CNTs are embedded. The CNT agglomerat...