ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,692, issued on April 21, was assigned to Mitsubishi Pencil Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Liquid absorbing body" was invented by Atsunori Satake (Gunma, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid absorbing body according to the present invention contains amorphous carbon and crystalline carbon particles dispersed in the amorphous carbon; the content of the crystalline carbon particles is from 60% by mass to 90% by mass based on the total mass of the amorphous carbon and the crystalline carbon particles; the degree of orientation as determined by a wide-angle X-ray scattering method is 75% or more; and the open porosity as determined in accor...