ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,146, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to APOLLO TYRES LTD. (Tamil Nadu, India).

"Method for preparing a silica embedded carbon black composite aggregate and composite aggregate prepared thereby" was invented by Chandresh Dwivedi (Maharashtra, India), Tapas Ranjan Mohanty (Odisha, India), Ramakrishnan S. (Tamilnadu, India), Jiby Isaac (Tamilnadu, India), P K Mohamed (Kerala, India) and Sampatrao Dagu Manjare (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a silica embedded carbon black composite aggregate prepared by a method comprising: a) feeding an oxidative gas, silica precursor and carbon black feedsto...