US Patent Issued to MITSUI MINING & SMELTING on Aug. 26 for "Powder for film formation or sintering" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,345, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to MITSUI MINING & SMELTING Co. LTD. (Japan).

"Powder for film formation or sintering" was invented by Kento Matsukura (Omuta, Japan), Shuichi Tateoka (Omuta, Japan) and Hirochika Ogawa (Omuta, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powder for coating or sintering exhibits a peak assigned to orthorhombic YAlO3 in an X-ray diffractometry. Of peaks exhibited in the X-ray diffractometry, the peak assigned to the (112) plane of orthorhombic YAlO3 is a peak that has the highest peak intensity. Preferably, the value of the ratio of S2 to S1, S2/S1, is less than 1 in an X-ray diffractometry using CuKAlph...