ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,116, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to FUJIMI Inc. (Kiyosu, Japan).

"Titanium phosphate powder, production method therefor, and white pigment for cosmetics" was invented by Mayumi Iwakuni (Kiyosu, Japan), Keiji Ashitaka (Kiyosu, Japan) and Naoya Miwa (Kiyosu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The titanium phosphate powder of the present invention includes plate-shaped crystalline particles of titanium phosphate, an average thickness of the plate-shaped crystalline particles is 0.01 micro metre or more and less than 0.10 micro metre, and an aspect ratio, which is a value obtained by dividing an average primary particle diameter of t...