ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,806, issued on July 22, was assigned to KAO Corp. (Tokyo).
"Fine metal particle dispersion production method" was invented by Tomohide Yoshida (Wakayama, Japan) and Hirotaka Takeno (Wakayama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to [1] a process for producing a metal fine particle dispersion containing metal fine particles (a) dispersed with a polymer B, including the step 1 of mixing a metal oxide A, the polymer B and a compound C with each other, in which the polymer B contains a hydrophilic group; the compound C is a dihydric alcohol represented by the general formula (1); and the metal fine particles...