US Patent Issued to KURARAY on July 28 for "Liquid permeable body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,635, issued on July 28, was assigned to KURARAY Co. LTD. (Kurashiki, Japan).

"Liquid permeable body" was invented by Satoshi Katsuya (Kurashiki, Japan), Yosuke Washitake (Kurashiki, Japan) and Ryokei Endo (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present invention is to provide a liquid permeable body comprising a porous composite that has different liquid permeabilities between in the in-plane direction and in the out-of-plane direction as well as excellent mechanical properties. The liquid permeable body comprises a porous composite having a structure in which discontinuous reinforcing fibers are disperse...