US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE, KROSAKIHARIMA on Dec. 9 for "Thermal insulation pipe" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,777, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE (Tsukuba, Japan) and KROSAKIHARIMA Corp. (Kitakyushu, Japan).

"Thermal insulation pipe" was invented by Rudder Wu (Tsukuba, Japan), Kuan-I Lee (Tsukuba, Japan), Kazuhiro Matsuzaki (Kitakyushu, Japan), Hironobu Sasayama (Kitakyushu, Japan), Yukihisa Matsuo (Kitakyushu, Japan) and Shogo Yamashita (Kitakyushu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An objective of the present invention is to provide a pipe through which fluids can flow, in which thermal insulation in a space between an inner wall and an outer wall is achieved at low cost and high performance. T...