ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,593, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Conductive film" was invented by Hideki Tomizawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuhiro Hasegawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takahiro Ohno (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conductive film having excellent adhesiveness of a conductive thin wire after a durability test film includes: a transparent substrate; and a mesh pattern that is disposed on the transparent substrate and is formed of a conductive thin wire, in which the conductive thin wire includes a black layer including carbon black, a palladium-containing layer, and a metal plating layer in order from the trans...