ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,373, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Electrically conductive wire" was invented by Kazuaki Sugimura (Osaka, Japan), Takayuki Shiwaku (Osaka, Japan) and Tomoyuki Awazu (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrically conductive wire includes a core wire made of metal, and a coating layer made of stainless steel covering a surface of the core wire. The metal constituting the core wire has an electrical conductivity greater than that of the stainless steel. The core wire includes a diffusion layer containing not less than 0.5 mass % Fe, arranged to constitute the surface ...