US Patent Issued to JFE MINERAL on April 22 for "Metahalloysite powder and metahalloysite powder production method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,020, issued on April 22, was assigned to JFE MINERAL COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Metahalloysite powder and metahalloysite powder production method" was invented by Hidefumi Konnai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a novel metahalloysite powder and a production method thereof, which are not present in the prior art. The metahalloysite powder is a powder which comprises granules of aggregated metahalloysite comprising metahalloysite nanotubes, which are tube-shaped metahalloysite. The production method comprises a step of preparing a halloysite slurry which comprises halloysite nanotubes, a step for formulating a powder from...