US Patent Issued to The University of Sydney on May 20 for "Aligned fibres and a method of making the same" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,158, issued on May 20, was assigned to The University of Sydney (Sydney).

"Aligned fibres and a method of making the same" was invented by Seyed Ali Hadigheh (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a method for aligning discontinuous fibres comprising: providing a stream of discontinuous fibres in a dispersion medium; applying a shear stress to the dispersion medium to align at least a portion of the discontinuous fibres; and disposing the at least a portion of the aligned discontinuous fibres on a substrate thereby providing a layer of substantially aligned discontinuous fibres. Also provided are discontinuous fibr...