US Patent Issued to NICHIA on Sept. 23 for "Hexagonal boron nitride fibers and method of manufacturing same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,113, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Hexagonal boron nitride fibers and method of manufacturing same" was invented by Hideki Yoshida (Tokushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing hexagonal boron nitride fibers includes: providing amorphous fibrous boron nitride; performing heat treatment on the amorphous fibrous boron nitride at a first temperature of 500deg C. or greater and less than 900deg C. in an oxygen-containing atmosphere to obtain a first heat-treated product; and performing heat treatment on the first heat-treated product at a second temperature in a range of 10...