ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,272, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SHPP GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V. (Netherlands).

"Polymer-ceramic core-shell particle powders, and processes for making and articles comprising such powders" was invented by Viswanathan Kalyanaraman (Newburgh, Ind.), Devendra Narayandas Bajaj (Evansville, Ind.) and Thomas Lane Evans (Mt. Vernon, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ceramic-polymer powders comprising a plurality of core-shell particles, where: each of the core-shell particles comprises a core and a shell around the core; the core comprises a ceramic selected from the group of ceramics consisting of: Al2O3, Fe2O3, ZnO, ZrO2, and SiO2;...