ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,231, issued on June 17, was assigned to Quantum Conductors Ltd (East Farleigh, Great Britain).
"Conductive element" was invented by John Franks (East Farleigh, Great Britain), Mathieu Delmas (East Farleigh, Great Britain) and Calvin Prentice (East Farleigh, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for producing a conductive element precursor and a conductive element, such as a tape or wire, are provided. The methods comprise growing a plurality of carbon nanotubes on a metallic substrate and coating carbon nanotubes of the plurality of carbon nanotubes on the metallic substrate with a metallic material."
The patent was f...