US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on Feb. 17 for "Porous body and method for manufacturing porous body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,990, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Porous body and method for manufacturing porous body" was invented by Hiroyuki Ohata (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Hiroyuki Masaki (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A porous body containing a liquid crystal polymer powder that has liquid crystal polymer fibers, wherein an average size of the liquid crystal polymer fibers is 2 micro metre or less, the porous body has an average pore size of 10 micro metre or less as measured by mercury intrusion porosimetry, and the porous body has a tensile strength of 25 N/mm2 or more."

The patent ...