ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,377, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to DENKA COMPANY Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Carbon-containing alumina powder, resin composition, heat dissipation component, and method for producing carbon-containing alumina powder" was invented by Takafumi Komaki (Tokyo), Junya Nitta (Tokyo), Yoshiaki Okamoto (Tokyo), Masakazu Hirata (Tokyo) and Genta Karino (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carbon-containing alumina powder containing a carbon-containing alumina particle having a projected area equivalent circle diameter of 1 micro metre or more and 100 micro metre or less as determined by microscopy, wherein an average sphericity of the carbon-conta...