ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,285, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to FURUKAWA Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Method of manufacturing inorganic material" was invented by Masaaki Kikuchi (Tsukuba, Japan), Shogo Suzuki (Tsukuba, Japan) and Norihiko Sumi (Tsukuba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing an inorganic material includes: a step (A) of preparing a first inorganic material as a raw material; a step (B) of obtaining a second inorganic material by crushing the first inorganic material using a ball mill to obtain fine particles of the first inorganic material, the ball mill including a cylindrical container and crushing balls; and a step (C) of...