US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA on Nov. 25 for "Carbon nanotube-resin composite and method for manufacturing carbon nanotube-resin composite" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,230, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA (Tsukuba, Japan).

"Carbon nanotube-resin composite and method for manufacturing carbon nanotube-resin composite" was invented by Toshihiko Fujimori (Osaka, Japan), Takeshi Hikata (Osaka, Japan), Soichiro Okubo (Osaka, Japan) and Jun-Ichi Fujita (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carbon nanotube-resin composite includes: a carbon nanotube assembled wire including a plurality of carbon nanotubes; and a resin, wherein in the carbon nanotube assembled wire, the carbon nanotubes are oriented at a degree of orien...