ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,456, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to NITTO DENKO Corp. (Ibaraki, Japan).
"Transparent conductive film, laminate, and method for producing transparent conductive film" was invented by Kyotaro Yamada (Osaka, Japan), Toshihiro Tsurusawa (Osaka, Japan), Hironobu Machinaga (Osaka, Japan), Motoki Haishi (Osaka, Japan) and Eri Ueda (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transparent conductive film (3) includes a polycrystal (31). The polycrystal (31) has grains (32). The grains (32) have an average value Df of a maximum Feret diameter of 160 to 400 nm."
The patent was filed on Sept. 16, 2020, under Application No. 17/764,909.
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