ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,327, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY (Xi'an City, China) and SHAANXI ZINC INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Shangluo City, China).

"Thin-walled composite pipe with high thermal conductivity, and preparation method and application thereof" was invented by Shengqiang Ma (Xi'an, China), Ping Lv (Xi'an, China), Yusheng Liu (Xi'an, China), Jiandong Xing (Xi'an, China), Jing Xu (Shangluo, China), Jiankang Zhang (Shangluo, China), Jiaxu Chen (Xi'an, China), Maojiang Ye (Xi'an, China), Gaofeng Ma (Shangluo, China) and Wenmin Niu (Shangluo, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing a thin-walled composite pipe is...