US Patent Issued to JFE MINERAL on Oct. 20 for "Composite" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,488, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to JFE MINERAL COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Composite" was invented by Hidefumi Konnai (Tokyo) and Takahiro Takei (Kofu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a composite body that includes halloysite powder including a granule in which halloysite including a halloysite nanotube is aggregated, and a transition metal catalyst carried in the halloysite powder. The granule preferably includes a first pore derived from a tube hole of the halloysite nanotube, and a second pore different from the first pore. The transition metal catalyst preferably includes at least one element selected from the gr...