US Patent Issued to JGC Catalysts and Chemicals on Feb. 17 for "Method for producing zirconia-coated titanium oxide fine particles, zirconia-coated titanium oxide fine particles, and use thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,946, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to JGC Catalysts and Chemicals Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Method for producing zirconia-coated titanium oxide fine particles, zirconia-coated titanium oxide fine particles, and use thereof" was invented by Jun Yamaguchi (Kitakyushu, Japan), Naoyuki Enomoto (Kitakyushu, Japan) and Ryo Muraguchi (Kitakyushu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for producing a zirconia-coated titanium oxide fine particle dispersion which includes (1) a step of preparing a dispersion (1) of titanium oxide fine particles, (2) a step of adding, to the dispersion (1), 1 to 50 parts by mass of an aqueo...