ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,305, issued on July 14, was assigned to SANKOSHA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Grounding resistance reducing material and grounding device" was invented by Koji Terashima (Tokyo), Kenta Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Shuji Kurano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Providing a grounding resistance reducing material that can contribute to the reduction in carbon dioxide emission and can be used in the same manner as the grounding resistance reducing material that uses coke, which is fossil fuel, and a grounding device using the grounding resistance reducing material, and also providing a grounding resistance reducing material whose weight can be trimmed. ...