ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,176, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Japan).

"Composite body comprising silicon carbide and method for producing same" was invented by Takashi Matsumae (Tsukuba, Japan), Hideki Takagi (Tsukuba, Japan), Hitoshi Umezawa (Kawanishi, Japan), Yuuichi Kurashima (Tsukuba, Japan) and Eiji Higurashi (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a silicon carbide composite body that can be expected to have efficient heat conduction and electrical conduction between bonding base materials. The silicon carbide composite body includes a first base material incl...