US Patent Issued to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM on April 21 for "Aerogel foams and methods of preparing the same" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,688, issued on April 21, was assigned to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas).

"Aerogel foams and methods of preparing the same" was invented by Sadeq Malakooti (Richardson, Texas) and Hongbing Lu (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided by the inventive concept are aerogel foams as solid materials including hierarchical porosity created by a foam-like structure embedded in the skeletal framework of a regular aerogel, methods of preparing the same without the presence and/or use of added chemical foaming agents, prefabricated templates, supercritical fluids and/or sacrificial chemicals, and m...