ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,103, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (Tokyo).

"Conductive composition and method for manufacturing same, and conductor and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Saki Nakano (Tokyo), Yoshiko Irie (Tokyo), Masashi Uzawa (Tokyo) and Akira Yamazaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conductive composition may include a conductive polymer (A) having an acidic group, and a basic compound (B), wherein: an X/Y area ratio is 0.046 or less, which is a ratio an area (X) of a region corresponding to molecular weight (M) ranging from 300 to 3300, relative to an area (Y) of an entire region ascribed to th...