ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,073, issued on April 1, was assigned to ADEKA Corp. (Tokyo).
"Composite material" was invented by Tomoaki Saiki (Tokyo), Hideyuki Yokota (Tokyo), Ryo Taniuchi (Tokyo) and Toru Yano (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a composite material that has improved dispersibility of an exfoliated layered substance in a resin or the like and can thus significantly improve the properties, such as impact resistance, of a synthetic resin. A composite material in which the surface of an exfoliated layered substance is coated with a compound having a reactive group, wherein the compound having a reactive group is a compound having at l...