US Patent Issued to TOSOH on July 8 for "Gallium nitride particles and method for producing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,455, issued on July 8, was assigned to TOSOH Corp. (Yamaguchi, Japan).

"Gallium nitride particles and method for producing same" was invented by Masami Mesuda (Kanagawa, Japan), Hideto Kuramochi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shinichi Hara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "High-purity gallium nitride particles having a low oxygen content suitable for a raw material or a sintered body is provided. Gallium nitride particles characterized in that the oxygen content is 0.5 at % or less and the total impurity amount of elements, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb, Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Zn and Cd, is less than 10 wtppm are used."

The patent was filed on Oc...