US Patent Issued to Alchemy Sciences on July 15 for "Particles for carriers and tracers" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,116, issued on July 15, was assigned to Alchemy Sciences Inc. (Houston).

"Particles for carriers and tracers" was invented by Erick Acosta (Sugar Land, Texas), Luchao Jin (Houston) and Shashidhar Rajagopalan (Fulshear, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for forming a particle carrier system includes supplying a particle carrier, the particle carrier having a surface and modifying the particle carrier surface to include a first ionic functional group. The process also includes chemically binding the first ionic functional group on the particle carrier surface to a first ionic molecule."

The patent was filed on Feb. 7, 202...