US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on Aug. 5 for "Method for producing aerogels and aerogels obtained using said method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,128, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Method for producing aerogels and aerogels obtained using said method" was invented by Damian Hintemann (Stadtlohn, Germany), Andreas Kilzer (Witten, Germany), Nils Molders (Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany), Manfred Renner (Essen, Germany), Andreas Sengespeick (Minden, Germany), Eckhard Weidner (Bochum, Germany) and Oliver Weishaupt (Gladbeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for producing an aerogel under increased pressure, to the aerogel obtained using said method and to their u...