ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,522, issued on April 29, was assigned to Aalto University Foundation SR (Aalto, Finland) and Cambridge Enterprise Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Highly scattering porous material based on fibrillar, elongated, or disk-like particles" was invented by Matti Toivonen (Aalto, Finland), Olli Ikkala (Aalto, Finland), Silvia Vignolini (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Olimpia Domitilla Onelli (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns a material, based on fibrillar, elongated, or disk-like colloidal particles, that has a high scattering efficiency, a method that is suitable for preparing such a ma...