US Patent Issued to NITERRA on July 28 for "Holding device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,069, issued on July 28, was assigned to NITERRA Co. LTD. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Holding device" was invented by Shun Usui (Nagoya, Japan), Shiro Inoue (Nagoya, Japan), Sumio Ota (Nagoya, Japan), Honami Ohara (Nagoya, Japan) and Takumi Sanari (Nagoya-shi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A holding device includes a ceramic substrate including a plate-shaped member containing ceramics as a main component and including a first surface for holding an object and a gas flow path formed therein. The gas flow path includes, in a part thereof, a porous region that is a region in which a gas-permeable porous body that contains ceramics as a mai...