ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,484, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Adsorbent, method for manufacturing the same, adsorption sheet, artificial dialysis membrane, and artificial dialyzer" was invented by Yuki Kimura (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Ichitaro Okamura (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Takeshi Torita (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Masashi Koyanagi (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adsorbent that includes a particle of a layered material that contains one or a plurality of layers; and contains Li. The one or plural layers includes a layer body represented by: MmXn where, M represents at least one Group-3, -4, ...