US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on Oct. 20 for "Porous composite" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,469, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya-City, Japan).

"Porous composite" was invented by Takuya Nakashima (Nagoya-City, Japan) and Akihiro Miura (Nagoya-City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A porous composite includes a porous base material and a porous collection layer provided on a collection surface of the base material. The collection layer includes particles deposited in pores of the collection surface. In a plan view of the collection surface, the proportion of the area of a covered region that is covered with the collection layer out of the collection surface is less than or equal to 70%, and ...