US Patent Issued to KYOCERA on March 31 for "Heat-resistant container" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,935, issued on March 31, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Heat-resistant container" was invented by Takahiro Ueno (Kirishima, Japan), Kentaro Kikuchi (Kirishima, Japan) and Satoshi Toyoda (Kirishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat-resistant container according to the present disclosure includes a first wall portion constituting a sidewall and a second wall portion constituting an upper wall or bottom wall. The first wall portion and the second wall portion are made of a ceramic. The first wall portion has a large number of pores therein. In cross sections of the first wall portion, a porosity Pr1 is smalle...