ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,117, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to HEADMADE MATERIALS GMBH (Unterpleichfeld, Germany).

"Compound particles for use in a shaping and sintering process and process for preparing compound particles" was invented by Christian Staudigel (Unterpleichfeld, Germany) and Christian Fischer (Unterpleichfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of compound particles for use in a shaping and sintering process, comprising pulverulent non-organic particles in a temporary organic binder, is characterized in that: (i) at least 80% of the pulverulent non-organic particles have a maximum dimension Amax in the range of from 10 nm to ...