ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,026, issued on May 20, was assigned to Panasonic Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Composite resin molded article" was invented by Masashi Hamabe (Osaka, Japan), Toshifumi Nagino (Osaka, Japan), Masayoshi Imanishi (Osaka, Japan) and Shouma Nishino (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite resin molded article includes: a base resin; and fillers dispersed in the base resin, wherein the fillers include fibrous fillers and particulate fillers having aspect ratios lower than aspect ratios of the fibrous fillers."

The patent was filed on Aug. 6, 2019, under Application No. 16/532,675.

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