ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,594, issued on Oct. 20, 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 titanium content of 97% by mass or more, an oxygen content of 0.9% by mass or more and 2.0% by mass or less, and a carbon content of 0.01% by mass or more and 0.06% by mass or less, and has a thickness of 0.3 mm or less, a porosity of 35% or more and 45% or less, an irreversible deformation amount after being pressu...