ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,955, issued on July 21, was assigned to Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, South Korea).

"2D nanomaterial fiber and method of fabricating the same" was invented by Sang Ouk Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hong Ju Jung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a 2D nanomaterial fiber. The 2D nanomaterial fiber includes plate-type fibrous cross sections formed by orienting a 2D nanomaterial in a longitudinal direction and stacking the oriented 2D nanomaterial."

The patent was filed on July 22, 2021, under Application No. 17/443,231.

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