US Patent Issued to Old Dominion University on April 21 for "Method and apparatus for forming variable density sintered ceramic using application of alternating voltage to aqueous ceramic suspension with ice-templating" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,496, issued on April 21, was assigned to Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Va.).

"Method and apparatus for forming variable density sintered ceramic using application of alternating voltage to aqueous ceramic suspension with ice-templating" was invented by Dipankar Ghosh (Virginia Beach, Va.), Sashanka Akurati (Norfolk, Va.) and Shizhi Qian (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for forming variable density ceramic structures, where the method includes: obtaining a ceramic powder having an ultrafine particle size; mixing the ceramic powder into a suspension fluid thus forming a ceramic suspension; providi...