ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,618, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and KYUSHU UNIVERSITY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Corp. (Fukuoka, Japan).

"Thermally conductive additive, thermally conductive composite material, and wire harness" was invented by Naoyuki Oshiumi (Yokkaichi, Japan), Takehiro Hosokawa (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Makoto Mizoguchi (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermally conductive additive is excellent in thermal conductivity improvement effect and has high processability, and a thermally conductive comp...