ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,290, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to DIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Molybdenum disulfide particles and lubricating composition" was invented by Akihiro Koike (Sakura, Japan) and Yusuke Kano (Sakura, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Molybdenum disulfide particles include a 2H crystal structure and a 3R crystal structure of molybdenum disulfide, in which a presence ratio of the 3R crystal structure in a crystal phase of molybdenum disulfide is 10% or more, and a crystallite size of the 3R crystal structure calculated by extended-type Rietveld analysis based on an analysis formula L=KLambda/(Beta cos Theta) using a profile obtained from powde...