US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING, COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on July 29 for "Method for forming product structure having porous regions and lateral encapsulation" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,808, issued on July 29, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Method for forming product structure having porous regions and lateral encapsulation" was invented by Frederic Voiron (Barraux, France), Brigitte Soulier (Grenoble, France) and Guy Parat (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structure that includes: an insulating layer; a first metal layer above a first portion of the insulating layer; a first porous region of anodic oxide, above and in contact with the first metal layer; and a second porous region of anodi...