ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,033, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Silica particles comprising nitrogen element-containing compound containing molybdenum element" was invented by Yuka Zenitani (Kanagawa, Japan), Sakae Takeuchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Koji Sasaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshifumi Eri (Kanagawa, Japan) and Mai Mochida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Silica particles contain a nitrogen element-containing compound containing a molybdenum element, in which a ratio (Mo/Si) of Net intensity of the molybdenum element to Net intensity of a silicon element measured by X-ray fluorescence analysis is 0.035 ...