US Patent Issued to GFI on July 21 for "Fire extinguishing micro-capsule, method for manufacturing same, and fire extinguisher including same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,887, issued on July 21, was assigned to GFI Co. LTD. (Gimpo-si, South Korea).

"Fire extinguishing micro-capsule, method for manufacturing same, and fire extinguisher including same" was invented by Sang Sup Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Alexandra Sertsova (Seoul, South Korea) and Sergei Krasilnikov (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a fire extinguishing micro-capsule, a method for manufacturing the same, and a fire extinguisher using the same. The fire extinguishing micro-capsule has a core-shell structure in which a core includes a liquid fire extinguishing agent and a shell uses a high-d...