US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America on Nov. 25 for "Near infrared reflective copper oxide coated particles" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,000, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Near infrared reflective copper oxide coated particles" was invented by Songtao Wu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Krishna Gunugunuri (Canton, Mich.) and Debasish Banerjee (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming a copper coated particles includes combining a precipitating agent with a solution comprising copper nitrate and particles to forming coated particles. The particles are cobalt oxide (Co3O4) or carbon black. The coated particles are washed to obtain washed coated particles, the washed coated p...