ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,961, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Sumitomo Riko Co. Ltd. (Aichi, Japan).
"Thermal insulation material" was invented by Yutaro Taguchi (Aichi, Japan), Yuuki Saitou (Aichi, Japan) and Naoki Katayama (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This thermal insulation material is provided with: thermal insulation layers, each of which has a porous structure having a skeleton that is composed of a plurality of particles connected with each other, while having pores inside and hydrophobic portions at least on the surface among the surface and the inside; and a pair of functional layers which are arranged on both sides of the thermal...