ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,425, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to LG CHEM Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for manufacturing composite material, and composite material" was invented by Yeon Soo Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong Woo Yoo (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jin Kyu Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for manufacturing a composite material and composite materials are provided. The method may include preparing a metal foam, preparing a mixture including the metal foam and a curable polymer, curing the curable polymer of the mixture to obtain a composite material, and performing a planarization treatment. The planarization treatm...