US Patent Issued to Metalmark Innovations, PBC on Sept. 29 for "Granulated hierarchical material structure" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,527, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Metalmark Innovations, PBC (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Granulated hierarchical material structure" was invented by Tanya Shirman (Winchester, Mass.), Sissi Liu (Arlington, Mass.) and Elijah Shirman (Winchester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a composition is disclosed that includes an agglomeration of a plurality of porous microparticles forming a hierarchically porous material structure. The porous microparticles can be formed of a biogenic and/or a synthetic material. In some embodiments, a plurality of binder can be distributed among the microparticles to facilitate the agglo...