ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,188, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing composite member, and composite member" was invented by Yutaka Sato (Sendai, Japan), Tetsuya Sonoda (Morioka, Japan), Takayuki Kuwashima (Morioka, Japan) and Takahiro Kubo (Morioka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a composite member, in which a composite member having a high joining strength can be manufactured in an inexpensive and efficient way; and the composite member. A metal member and a resin-containing member are joined together by heating the metal member while pressing the resin-containing mem...