ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,023, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to FURUKAWA Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus of manufacturing inorganic material and method of manufacturing inorganic material" was invented by Yuichi Yaguchi (Tsukuba, Japan) and Yoshitaka Sakairi (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blower (100) blows inert gas. A crusher (200) repeats vitrifying plural kinds of inorganic compounds (A1) by mechanical energy and blowing up the plural kinds of vitrified inorganic compounds (A1) by the inert gas blown from the blower (100). At least some of the plural kinds of inorganic compounds (A1) blown up by the inert gas enter into a first collector ...