ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,634, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to OSAKA TITANIUM TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Active metal particle surface modification method, and titanium particles or titanium alloy particles" was invented by Shota Kariya (Minoh, Japan), Shozo Matsunaga (Amagazaki, Japan) and Jyunki Okada (Amagazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Active metal particles in which the surface layer is hardly oxidized and a method for producing the active metal particles is provided. In the method for modifying the surface of active metal particles, heat is generated by moving active metal powder in a fluid, and the surface layer of the active...