US Patent Issued to KEIO UNIVERSITY, IBARAKI UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS, AYABO on July 22 for "Support body, manufacturing apparatus for support body, and manufacturing method for support body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,034, issued on July 22, was assigned to KEIO UNIVERSITY (Tokyo), IBARAKI UNIVERSITY (Mito, Japan), NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS (Tsukuba, Japan) and AYABO Corp. (Anjo, Japan).

"Support body, manufacturing apparatus for support body, and manufacturing method for support body" was invented by Atsushi Nakajima (Yokohama, Japan), Hironori Tsunoyama (Yokohama, Japan), Mika Uno (Hitachi, Japan), Hiroyuki Gunji (Hitachi, Japan), Toshihiro Ando (Tsukuba, Japan), Keizo Tsukamoto (Anjo, Japan), Masahide Tona (Anjo, Japan) and Naoyuki Hirata (Anjo, Japan).

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