ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,392, issued on June 17, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Liquid crystal polymer film, liquid crystal polymer film with conductor layer, and multilayer substrate" was invented by Takeshi Eda (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Fumiko Ikeda (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Yutaka Mizuno (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Taichi Furukawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid crystal polymer film that includes: a benzene ring; a naphthalene ring; and a carboxymethyl group, wherein, in a 13C-NMR spectrum of a liquid crystal polymer film decomposed with supercritical methanol, an integral value CA of a peak derived from t...