ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,563, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ZEROIGNITION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Halifax, Canada).
"Thermally insulating and fire retardant material and method for making same" was invented by Eamonn Martin Blair (Halifax, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fire retardant material includes a deconstructed nanoporous material including a plurality of elements, and solids of a fire-retarding solution within the elements of the nanoporous material. A method of forming the fire retardant material includes combining a nanoporous material and a fire-retarding solution such that elements of the nanoporous material absorb the fire retarding so...