US Patent Issued to Agency for Science, Technology and Research on July 29 for "Methods for forming and uses of titania-coated inorganic particles" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,571, issued on July 29, was assigned to Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore).

"Methods for forming and uses of titania-coated inorganic particles" was invented by Xu Li (Singapore), Yu Zhang (Singapore) and Ming Yan Tan (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) agitating a mixture of inorganic particle and organic solvent; (b) adding titania precursor dropwise into the mixture of step (a) under agitation; and (c) adding catalyst to the mixture of step (b) thereby converting said titania precursor to titania which then forms a coati...