ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,723, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).
"Part having a porous structure and related manufacturing method" was invented by Hicham Maskrot (Montlhery, France) and Olivier Hercher (Fontenay les Briis, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A part including a porous structure including cellular pores and formed at least in part by the periodic repetition of a basic pattern, each cellular pore being delimited by a wall, made of a metal or a polymer, having a parietal porosity greater than 5% and including parietal pores with a mean size less than the mean size of the c...