US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on Feb. 10 for "Method for forming conductive thin wire, method for producing transparent conductor, method for producing device, and set of conductive ink and base material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,267, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Method for forming conductive thin wire, method for producing transparent conductor, method for producing device, and set of conductive ink and base material" was invented by Hirotaka Tagori (Kawasaki, Japan), Masayoshi Yamauchi (Chofu, Japan) and Ryo Aoyama (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for forming a conductive thin wire on a base material by an inkjet method using a conductive ink containing at least a main solvent having a boiling point equal to or lower than the boiling point of water, a solvent having a boiling point higher than that ...