US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on July 22 for "Highly dense brittle-material structural member having impregnating property" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,634, issued on July 22, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Tokyo).

"Highly dense brittle-material structural member having impregnating property" was invented by Muneyasu Suzuki (Tsukuba, Japan), Jun Akedo (Tsukuba, Japan), Shusuke Kanazawa (Tsukuba, Japan), Motoshi Itagaki (Tsukuba, Japan), Shun Hasegawa (Tsukuba, Japan), Tetsuo Tsuchiya (Tsukuba, Japan) and Hirobumi Ushijima (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a highly dense aggregate of brittle material particles having an interface at which the particles are bonded to each other and pores between the brittle m...