ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,792, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Method for producing layered product" was invented by Tomohiro Fukuura (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a novel method for producing a structure comprising an assembly of metal-based particles. Provided is a method for producing a layered product, the layered product comprising a substrate having a three-dimensional surface; and a metal-based particle assembly layer arranged on the three-dimensional surface and comprising a plurality of metal-based particles arranged apart from each other, the method comprising the ...