US Patent Issued to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN on March 17 for "Transparent mesoporous materials and devices comprising same" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,656, issued on March 17, was assigned to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Transparent mesoporous materials and devices comprising same" was invented by Andrej Lenert (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Neil P. Dasgupta (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Zachary James Berquist (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Andrew Gayle (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Thermally insulating materials (TIMs) for use in concentrated solar thermal (CST) technologies comprising a mesoporous oxide including a porous oxide matrix comprising a porous oxide and a metal oxide or metal nitride in the form of a conformal layer of the metal oxide or metal nitr...