US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Michigan on June 16 for "Copper-ANF composite conductor fabrication" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,344, issued on June 16, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Copper-ANF composite conductor fabrication" was invented by Mark Hammig (Dexter, Mich.), Nicholas Kotov (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Jing Lyu (Beijing) and Suneel Joglekar (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating a conductor includes preparing an aramid nanofiber solution in which a matrix of aramid nanofibers is dispersed, preparing a dispersion of copper nanoparticles, each copper nanoparticle of the dispersion of cooper nanoparticles having an organic capping ligand attached to the copper nanoparticle, ...