US Patent Issued to Xerox on Aug. 5 for "Polyamide particles and methods of production and uses thereof" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,360, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Polyamide particles and methods of production and uses thereof" was invented by Valerie M. Farrugia (Oakville, Canada), Yulin Wang (Oakville, Canada), Chu Yin Huang (Mississauga, Canada) and Carolyn Patricia Moorlag (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing polyamide particles may include: mixing a mixture comprising a polyamide, a carrier fluid that is immiscible with the polyamide, and nanoparticles at a temperature greater than a melting point or softening temperature of the polyamide and at a shear rate sufficiently high to dispe...