ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,164, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Sheet containing nanofibers and method for producing same" was invented by Yusuke Morita (Kyotanabe, Japan), Koki Yokota (Kyotanabe, Japan), Kenichiro Takumi (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Shuichi Nakanishi (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Masayuki Tsuji (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a sheet having nanofibers that contain a piezoelectric polymer material. The method including dissolving a piezoelectric polymer material into a solvent so as to prepare a spinning solution; preheating a target board before nanofibers are f...