ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,449, issued on March 18, was assigned to MONALISA GROUP Co. LTD (Foshan, China).

"Dry granular ceramic tile from wet slurry spraying process and preparation method thereof" was invented by Libiao Xiao (Foshan, China), Qinggang Wang (Foshan, China), Zengcheng Qin (Foshan, China), Yuandong Yang (Foshan, China), Xianchao Wang (Foshan, China), Zhicong Yan (Foshan, China) and Kemu Cheng (Foshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dry granular ceramic tile from a wet slurry spraying process and a preparation method thereof, comprises: applying an overglaze on a green body, applying a pattern by ink-jet printing, applying a dry granula...