ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,602, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to East Penn Manufacturing Co. (Lyon Station, Pa.).

"Conductive sheet application process and conductive sheet assembly" was invented by Thomas Faust Jr. (Wyomissing, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process of applying a conductive material to a substrate includes positioning a plurality of first conductive sheets between the substrate and a second conductive sheet. The first conductive sheets are heated to melt the first conductive sheets. The first conductive sheets have a lower melting point than the substrate and the second conductive sheet; the substrate and the second conductive sheet...