US Patent Issued to LG CHEM on June 2 for "Method and apparatus for manufacturing silica aerogel blanket" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,795, issued on June 2, was assigned to LG CHEM Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for manufacturing silica aerogel blanket" was invented by Kyung Seok Min (Daejeon, South Korea), Se Won Baek (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang Woo Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Kyoung Shil Oh (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of manufacturing a silica aerogel blanket, and an apparatus for manufacturing a silica aerogel blanket used in the method. The method includes: (1) drying a silica hydrogel through a supercritical drying process using a supercritical extractor; (2) separating an extract discharged f...