ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,331, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TORAY INDUSTRIES Inc. (Tokyo).
"Jointed strand method of producing the same" was invented by Yusuke Yamanaka (Nagoya, Japan), Takafumi Hashimoto (Nagoya, Japan), Yasukazu Ono (Nagoya, Japan) and Tadashi Watanabe (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A jointed strand includes a superposed portion in which a first strand end in which fibers are oriented in one direction and a second strand end in which fibers are oriented in one direction are superposed; and a joint portion in which fibers of the first strand the second strand are interlaced at the superposed portion, wherein the joint po...