ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,670, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ZEON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Carbon film" was invented by Tomoko Yamagishi (Tokyo) and Mitsugu Uejima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carbon film is formed from carbon nanotube assemblies. In the carbon film, a pore distribution curve indicating the relationship between the pore size and the Log differential pore capacity obtained based on mercury intrusion porosimetry has at least one peak with a log differential pore capacity of 1.0 cm3/g or more within a pore size range of 10 nm or more and 100 micro metre or less."

The patent was filed on Nov. 30, 2021, under Application No. 18/253,390.

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