US Patent Issued to Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation on July 21 for "Microporous aerogel" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,995, issued on July 21, was assigned to Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Australia).

"Microporous aerogel" was invented by Kristina Konstas (Acton, Australia), George Maurdev (Acton, Australia) and Xingdong Wang (Acton, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to a microporous aerogel, processes for preparing a microporous aerogel, and applications for the microporous aerogel. The present disclosure also generally relates to an apparatus for capturing carbon dioxide from a gaseous stream or from the atmosphere, the apparatus comprising a microporous aerogel for sel...