US Patent Issued to CANON ANELVA, CANON on Feb. 24 for "Structure and method of manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,671, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CANON ANELVA Corp. (Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan) and CANON K.K. (Ohta-ku Tokyo, Japan).

"Structure and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Manabu Ikemoto (Kawashi, Japan) and Hiroyuki Tokunaga (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structure in which a plurality of particles each containing a hydrogen absorption metal element are arranged in a fixed member such that the plurality of particles are apart from each other. An entire surface of each of the plurality of particles is surrounded by the fixed member. The fixed member contains at least one of an oxide and a nitride...