US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Electric Industries on July 8 for "Composite material and composite material manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,753, issued on July 8, was assigned to Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Composite material and composite material manufacturing method" was invented by Ryota Matsugi (Osaka, Japan), Isao Iwayama (Osaka, Japan) and Tetsuya Kuwabara (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite material includes: coated particles, each of which includes a carbon-based particle made of a carbon-based substance and a carbide layer that covers at least a part of the surface of the carbon-based particle; and a copper phase that binds the coated particles to each other, wherein the carbide layer is made of a carbide containing at...