ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,956, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Collecting filter and method for manufacturing transparent conducting film using the same" was invented by Yoshihiro Kozawa (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collecting filter has a filter membrane with a porous structure to filter a nanocarbon material from a dispersion medium containing the nanocarbon material, and a dense film having an opening through which the dispersion medium passes. The opening has a reverse tapered shape in which a first width at an inlet of the dispersion medium opposite to the filter membrane is smaller than a sec...