US Patent Issued to aerogel-it on April 7 for "Process for continuous supercritical drying of aerogel particles" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,341, issued on April 7, was assigned to aerogel-it GmbH (Osnabrueck, Germany).

"Process for continuous supercritical drying of aerogel particles" was invented by Sohajl Movahhed (Lemfoerde, Germany), Wibke Loelsberg (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Dirk Weinrich (Lemfoerde, Germany), Marc Fricke (Lemfoerde, Germany), Raman Subrahmanyam (Hamburg, Germany), Irina Smirnova (Hamburg, Germany), Pavel Gurikov (Hamburg, Germany) and Fynn Missfeldt (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes for drying gel particles, in particular for producing aerogels, involve providing a suspension containing gel particles and a solvent, introducin...