US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC TOYAMA on July 7 for "Surface-coated metal porous body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,240, issued on July 7, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC TOYAMA Co. LTD. (Toyama, Japan).

"Surface-coated metal porous body" was invented by Kazuki Okuno (Osaka, Japan), Masatoshi Majima (Osaka, Japan) and Hitoshi Tsuchida (Imizu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface-coated metal porous body having a three-dimensional network structure, the surface-coated metal porous body including: a framework forming the three-dimensional network structure; and a coating film provided on a surface of the framework, wherein the framework has a body including a metal element as a constitu...