ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,268, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Organic insulator and wiring board" was invented by Chie Chikara (Kyotanabe, Japan), Tadashi Nagasawa (Kirishima, Japan), Satoshi Yoshiura (Kyotanabe, Japan), Satoshi Kajita (Ikoma, Japan) and Kouji Fujikawa (Kyotanabe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An organic insulator is produced by cured resin product containing a cyclic olefin copolymer as a main component and has a cumulative luminescence amount measured by chemiluminescence measurement method of 4x105 cpm or less. The glass transition temperature of the cured product is from 134deg C. to 140deg C. The...