ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,827, issued on June 2, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Inorganic structure and method for producing same" was invented by Natsuki Sato (Osaka, Japan), Ryosuke Sawa (Osaka, Japan), Naoki Kurizoe (Osaka, Japan), Tatsuro Yoshioka (Osaka, Japan), Tohru Sekino (Osaka, Japan), Sunghun Cho (Osaka, Japan) and Tomoyo Goto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an inorganic structure including a plurality of inorganic particles; and a binding part that covers a surface of each of the plurality of inorganic particles and binds each of the plurality of inorganic particles toge...