ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,223, issued on April 15, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Joint member and method for producing joint member" was invented by Takahiro Tachibana (Tokyo), Ryouji Okabe (Tokyo), Masami Kamiya (Tokyo), Yasunori Watanabe (Tokyo), Koichi Hasegawa (Tokyo), Yuichi Yui (Tokyo) and Akihisa Okuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A joint member according to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a resin member, and a metal member which includes a base material, and a cubic lattice part formed on a surface of the base material and embedded with the resin member. The cubic lattice part includes a ...