ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,777, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to DAICEL Corp. (Osaka, Japan) and DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Laminate" was invented by Naotaka Nishio (Tokyo), Shinji Maetani (Tokyo), Takahiro Sakakibara (Tokyo), Ryosuke Ieki (Tokyo), Takema Nakazawa (Osaka, Japan), Masaya Kasai (Osaka, Japan) and Takahisa Sueoka (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a laminate having low air permeability and excellent moisture permeability, a partition member for total heat exchange element composed of the laminate, a total heat exchange element provided with a plurality of the partition members for total hea...