ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,274, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore).

"Method for forming a titania-coated inorganic particle" was invented by Chao Chen (Singapore), Xu Li (Singapore), Suxi Wang (Singapore), Xikui Zhang (Singapore) and Siew Yee Wong (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a titania-coated inorganic particle comprising the steps of (a) stirring a mixture of a titania precursor such as a titanium alkoxide and an inorganic particle such as a hollow glass particles in an organic solvent such as an alcohol for more than 1 h to cause adsorption of the titania precursor on th...