ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,116, issued on June 17, was assigned to NAMICS Corp. (Niigata, Japan).
"Composite copper components" was invented by Naoki Obata (Niigata, Japan), Yoshinobu Kokaji (Niigata, Japan) and Makiko Sato (Niigata, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to provide novel composite copper components. For example, provided is a composite copper component including a copper oxide-containing layer formed on at least a portion of the surface of a copper component, in which when the surface of the composite copper component is bonded to a resin substrate by thermocompression, and the copper component is peeled off fr...