ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,606, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to DIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Composite particle and method of producing composite particle" was invented by Meng Li (Qingdao, China), Shingo Takada (Sakura, Japan), Tomoki Dohi (Sakura, Japan), Masamichi Hayashi (Sakura, Japan), Jianjun Yuan (Sakura, Japan), Taro Morimitsu (Kamisu, Japan), Shaowei Yang (Qingdao, China), Cheng Liu (Qingdao, China) and Wei Zhao (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an alumina particle containing molybdenum (Mo) and an inorganic coating part provided on the surface of the alumina particle."

The patent was filed on Oct. 9, 2019, unde...