US Patent Issued to Lawrence Livermore National Security on March 25 for "Tailoring of pores in aerogels using 3D printed structures" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,562, issued on March 25, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Tailoring of pores in aerogels using 3D printed structures" was invented by Swetha Chandrasekaran (Dublin, Calif.), Theodore F. Baumann (Discovery Bay, Calif.), Juergen Biener (San Leandro, Calif.), Patrick Campbell (Oakland, Calif.), James S. Oakdale (Castro Valley, Calif.) and Marcus A. Worsley (Hayward, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes acquiring a three-dimensional printed template created using an additive manufacturing technique, infilling the template with an aerogel precursor solution, allowing format...