US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 9 for "Method of producing porous body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,838, issued on June 9, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Method of producing porous body" was invented by Kohei Matsunobu (Toyota, Japan) and Akio Minakuchi (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of producing a porous body of a water-insoluble polymer, the method being excellent in terms of simplicity and capable of suppressing formation of a skin layer. A method of producing a porous body of a water-insoluble polymer disclosed here includes the steps of: preparing a solution in which a water-insoluble polymer is dissolved in a mixed solvent containing a good solvent for the water-insol...