US Patent Issued to NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATION, KOWA on Nov. 11 for "Fiber-reinforced composite material and method for producing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,170, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATION (Tsukuba, Japan) and KOWA COMPANY LTD. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Fiber-reinforced composite material and method for producing the same" was invented by Taiyo Yoshioka (Tsukuba, Japan), Tsunenori Kameda (Tsukuba, Japan), Akimune Asanuma (Tsukuba, Japan) and Norihiko Fukuoka (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to develop and provide a fiber-reinforced composite material having a bagworm silk thread(s) as a reinforcing fiber and being isotropic in terms of elastic modulus and strength. A fiber-reinforced c...