ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,332, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Inorganic structure and method for producing same" was invented by Natsuki Sato (Osaka, Japan), Ryosuke Sawa (Osaka, Japan), Tatsuro Yoshioka (Osaka, Japan), Naoki Kurizoe (Osaka, Japan), Tohru Sekino (Osaka, Japan), Tomoyo Goto (Osaka, Japan), Sunghun Cho (Osaka, Japan) and Yeongjun Seo (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an inorganic structure including a plurality of magnesium oxide particles; and a binding part that covers a surface of each of the magnesium oxide particles and binds the magnesium oxide...