US Patent Issued to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY on Jan. 13 for "Latent heat storage body microcapsule and method for producing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,759, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY (Hokkaido, Japan).

"Latent heat storage body microcapsule and method for producing same" was invented by Takahiro Nomura (Sapporo, Japan), Kohei Kashiyama (Sapporo, Japan), Hiroki Sakai (Sapporo, Japan), Miki Haga (Sapporo, Japan), Shunsuke Cho (Sapporo, Japan), Nan Sheng (Sapporo, Japan) and Takahiro Kawaguchi (Sapporo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A latent heat storage body microcapsule includes a core including gallium or gallium alloy; and a shell covering the core and including gallium oxide. A method for producing the same includ...