ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,705, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NAN YA PLASTICS Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Glass fiber and method for producing the same" was invented by Te-Chao Liao (Taipei, Taiwan), Wei-Sheng Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan), Chia-Shan Chang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chung-Ni Wu (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glass fiber and method for producing the same are provided. The method includes a covering process, a sintering process, a mixing process, and drawing process. The covering process is implemented by covering a tungsten compound onto a plurality of surfaces of a plurality of inorganic particles to form a plurality of modified inorgan...