ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,551, issued on May 20, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Filter and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Yukio Miyairi (Nagoya, Japan), Koji Fukuyo (Nagoya, Japan), Tasuku Matsumoto (Kasugai, Japan), Shuichi Ichikawa (Nagoya, Japan), Suguru Kodama (Nagoya, Japan), Ryuta Kono (Nagoya, Japan), Narimasa Shinoda (Ichinomiya, Japan) and Rui Horimoto (Ichinomiya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter including a plurality of pillar-shaped honeycomb structure segments made of porous ceramics, side faces of the segments being bonded together via a bonding material, wherein each of the pillar-shaped honey...