ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,187, issued on April 7, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Barium compound structure and manufacturing method therefor" was invented by Natsuki Sato (Osaka, Japan), Ryosuke Sawa (Osaka, Japan), Naoki Kurizoe (Osaka, Japan), Tatsuro Yoshioka (Osaka, Japan), Tohru Sekino (Osaka, Japan), Tomoyo Goto (Osaka, Japan), Sunghun Cho (Osaka, Japan) and Yeongjun Seo (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a barium compound structure including: a plurality of first compound particles containing a barium compound that is crystalline and is different from barium sulfate; a binding ...