US Patent Issued to Imertech on Aug. 5 for "Thermal insulation" (Greek Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,379, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Imertech SAS (Paris).

"Thermal insulation" was invented by Glikeria Kakali (Athens, Greece), Aggeliki Skaropoulou (Athens, Greece), Anna Gaki (Amaroussion, Greece), Maria Taxiarchou (KavalasPikermi, Greece), Konstantina Papakonstantinou (Athens, Greece) and Christos Dedeloudis (Athens, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a thermally insulating product comprises: (a) forming a mixture comprising solvent and gel network former and optionally foaming agent; (b) dispersing a thermally insulating filler in the mixture; and (c) drying the mixture to form the thermally insula...