US Patent Issued to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOBE UNIVERSITY on Aug. 4 for "Organic fine particle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,388, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOBE UNIVERSITY (Hyogo, Japan).

"Organic fine particle" was invented by Yoshito Tanaka (Osaka, Japan), Mayumi Iida (Osaka, Japan), Yuko Shiotani (Osaka, Japan), Marina Aihara (Osaka, Japan), Masahiro Higashi (Osaka, Japan) and Hideto Minami (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An organic fine particle comprising a core polymer and a shell polymer. The core polymer has a Tg or a melting point of 15deg C. or more, the core polymer has a water contact angle of 100deg or more, all monofunctional monomers constituting the...