ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,858, issued on June 30, was assigned to Toho Titanium Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Titanium porous body, and method for producing titanium porous body" was invented by Yosuke Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The titanium porous body according to the present invention is in a form of a sheet, and has a thickness of 0.3 mm or less, and a bending strain at break of 0.005 or more, wherein, for a three-dimensional surface texture of at least one surface of the titanium porous body, an arithmetic mean height Sa is 2.5 micro metre or less, a maximum height Sz is 30 micro metre or less, an aspect ratio Str of the surface...