US Patent Issued to SAINT-GOBAIN CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ET D'ETUDES EUROPEEN on Aug. 26 for "Ceramic armor with controlled pore size dispersion" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,980, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SAINT-GOBAIN CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ET D'ETUDES EUROPEEN (Corbevoie, France).

"Ceramic armor with controlled pore size dispersion" was invented by Jerome Brulin (Williamsville, N.Y.), Gilles Rossiquet (Louzac Saint-Andre, France) and Matthieu Graveleau (Avignon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Anti-ballistic armor element, comprising a ceramic body comprising a sintered material consisting of ceramic grains with a Vickers hardness of more than 5 GPa, the total pore volume of said material being between 0.5 and 10%, said ceramic body being characterized in that the cumulative volume of pores...