US Patent Issued to CORNING on March 24 for "Ceramic articles made from ceramic beads with open porosity" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,800, issued on March 24, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Ceramic articles made from ceramic beads with open porosity" was invented by Monika Backhaus-Ricoult (Bourron, France), Linda Kay Bohart (Liberty, Pa.), Brent Daniel Conway (Lindley, N.Y.), Zachary Andrew Fewkes (Corning, N.Y.) and Kimberley Louise Work (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ceramic article and method of manufacturing. The ceramic article comprises a porous ceramic material having a microstructure comprising an interconnected network of porous spheroidal ceramic beads. The microstructure has a total open porosity defined as the sum...