ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,967, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Huabao (Tianjin) New MaterialScience And TechnologyDevelopment Co. Ltd. (Tianjin, China) and Shanxi Huabao New Materials Co. Ltd. (Shanxi, China).

"Thermally insulating aerogel vacuum composite panel and preparation method thereof" was invented by Ye Sun (Tianjin, China), Pei Jiang (Tianjin, China), Na Wu (Tianjin, China), Jianwei Chen (Tianjin, China), Peng Liu (Tianjin, China), Fengxiang Bai (Tianjin, China), Lianshan Han (Tianjin, China), Jianlong Wang (Tianjin, China), Jia Wang (Tianjin, China), Dinghao Zhang (Tianjin, China) and Dingxin Zhang (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "...