US Patent Issued to qCella on April 7 for "Metal-inside-fiber-composite and method for producing a metal-and-fiber-composite" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,532, issued on April 7, was assigned to qCella AG (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Metal-inside-fiber-composite and method for producing a metal-and-fiber-composite" was invented by Markus Niederberger (Wolfenschiessen, Switzerland) and Murielle Schreck (Zuroch, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal-inside-fiber-composite including a biopolymer based fiber having a fiber wall and a void space. The fiber wall envelops the void space such that the void space forms a continuous void space inside and along the fiber. A metal microstructure makes the metal-inside-fiber-composite electrically conductive. A method for producing a metal-...