ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,830, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to DIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Plate-like alumina particle and method for manufacturing plate-like alumina particle" was invented by Shaowei Yang (Shandong, China), Tomoki Dohi (Chiba, Japan), Hironobu Oki (Chiba, Japan), Jianjun Yuan (Chiba, Japan), Cheng Liu (Shandong, China), Meng Li (Shandong, China) and Wei Zhao (Shandong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plate-like alumina particle, in which a ratio I(006)/I(ll3) of a peak intensity I(006) at 20=41.6plus-minus0.3 degrees which corresponds to a (006) face to a peak intensity I(113) at 20=43.3plus-minus0.3 degrees which corresponds to a (113) face...