ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,153, issued on June 17, was assigned to TORAY INDUSTRIES Inc. (Tokyo).

"Epoxy resin composition, molding material for fiber-reinforced composite material, and fiber-reinforced composite material" was invented by Norikazu Ishikawa (Nagoya, Japan), Tatsuya Takamoto (Nagoya, Japan) and Nobuyuki Tomioka (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purposes of the present invention are: to provide an epoxy resin composition having excellent impregnation into reinforcing fibers, excellent shapability under low-temperature conditions after thickening, and excellent heat resistance after curing; to provide a molding material for a fiber...