ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,237, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Wacker Chemie AG (Munich) and Nexeon Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Process for preparing silicon-containing composite particles" was invented by Jan Tillmann (Munich), Christoph Drager (Munich), Alena Kalyakina (Munich), Sebastian Kneissl (Kolbermoor, Germany), Thomas Renner (Munich), Markus Anderson (Abingdon, Great Britain), Charles A. Mason (Abingdon, Great Britain), Jose Medrano-Catalan (Abingdon, Great Britain), Richard Gregory Taylor (Penarth, Great Britain) and Joshua Whittam (East Hendred, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Silicon-containing composite particles, the proces...