US Patent Issued to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude on April 29 for "Cross-corrugated packing made from metal foam" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,733, issued on April 29, was assigned to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude (Paris).

"Cross-corrugated packing made from metal foam" was invented by David Frimat (Les Loges en Josas, France), Daniel Gary (Les Loges en Josas, France), Clement Lix (Paris), Frederic Rouseau (Les Loges en Josas, France), Bernard Saulnier (Les Loges en Josas, France) and Mikael Wattiau (Les Loges en Josas, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a packing made up of a stack of plates, having been shaped to form corrugations in the plate and assembled to form a cross-corrugated packing block f...