ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,382, issued on July 28, was assigned to KANEKA Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Particulate and method for producing particulate" was invented by Nobuyoshi Maizuru (Hyogo, Japan) and Kenji Teramoto (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powdery and/or granular material which achieves excellent dispersibility of fine polymer particles in a matrix resin is provided. The powdery and/or granular material contains specific fine polymer particles (A) and a specific resin (B), and has pores with an average pore diameter of 0.03 micro metre to 1.00 micro metre, where a total volume of the pores is not less than 0.0600 mL/g."

The patent was fi...