ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,111, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Porous body and fuel cell including the same" was invented by Ryoko Kanda (Osaka, Japan), Masatoshi Majima (Osaka, Japan), Mitsuyasu Ogawa (Osaka, Japan), Kazuki Okuno (Osaka, Japan), Koma Numata (Osaka, Japan) and Yohei Noda (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A porous body including a framework having a three-dimensional network structure, the framework having a body including nickel, cobalt, a first element and a second element as constituent elements, the cobalt having a proportion in mass of 0.2 or more and 0.8 or less relative to a...