US Patent Issued to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York on June 24 for "Method for forming a ceramic aerogel" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,184, issued on June 24, was assigned to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Amherst, N.Y.).

"Method for forming a ceramic aerogel" was invented by Shenqiang Ren (Williamsville, N.Y.), Ruizhe Yang (Buffalo, N.Y.), Binbo Chai (Buffalo, N.Y.) and Feng Hu (Buffalo, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are ceramic foams. The ceramic foams may have a hierarchical pore gradient. The ceramic foams may be silica aerogels. The ceramic foams may be made by reaction of one or more precursors in the presence of an inert gas generated by a pore-forming gas-forming additive. The ceramic foams may be used as insulat...