US Patent Issued to LG Chem on Feb. 18 for "Method for drying wet-gel blanket and method for producing aerogel blanket using the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,424, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for drying wet-gel blanket and method for producing aerogel blanket using the same" was invented by Mi Ri Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Oh Song (Daejeon, South Korea), Young Hun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Se Won Baek (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jae Hoon Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for drying a wet-gel blanket which can have an excellent heat insulation performance by minimizing shrinkage of a gel network structure that occurs during drying, and has excellent drying efficiency versus time, and a metho...