ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,506, issued on July 8, was assigned to Nitto Boseki Co. Ltd. (Fukushima, Japan).

"Glass composition for glass fibers, glass fibers, glass fiber textile, and glass fiber-reinforced resin composition" was invented by Takanobu Hosokawa (Koriyama, Japan), Tatsuya Komukai (Koriyama, Japan), Jun Ito (Koriyama, Japan), Kazuaki Takagi (Koriyama, Japan) and Tadashi Kurita (Koriyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glass composition for glass fiber includes Nb2O5 of 0.0001 to 0.3500% by mass, and SO3 of 0.0010 to 0.0100% by mass with respect to a total amount of the glass composition for glass fiber, wherein assuming that a rest of the t...