ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,584, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ELECTRONINKS Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Conductive materials and their methods of preparation by metallization with metal complex conductive ink compositions" was invented by Melburne C. Lemieux (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Steven Brett Walker (Austin, Texas) and Gaurav Tulsyan (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides electrically conductive materials, including electrically conductive textile materials, such as woven or knitted fabric textiles, individual fibers, and woven fibers and yarns. The conductive materials comprise a substrate material, such as a textile or oth...