ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,529, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Pukyong National University Industry-University Cooperation Foundation (Busan, South Korea).

"Method for manufacturing heterogeneous composite material thin plate and heterogeneous composite material thin plate manufactured by same" was invented by Hansang Kwon (Busan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a heterogeneous composite material thin plate and a heterogeneous composite material thin plate manufactured by same, the method comprising the steps of: (a) ball-milling an aluminum or aluminum alloy powder and a carbon nanotub...