ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,552, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Scintilex LLC (Alexandria, Va.).
"Fiber reinforced aerogel composites" was invented by Ian Louis Pegg (Alexandria, Va.) and Tanja Horn (Lorton, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fiber reinforced aerogel composites, including a transparent composite material that contains an aerogel and fibers embedded into the aerogel and/or bonded to one or more surfaces of the aerogel, and composites that contain an aerogel tile and an assemblage of fibers embedded into the aerogel tile or bonded to the aerogel tile that are useful as Cherenkov radiators for the detection and identification of subatomic part...