ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,101, issued on July 21, was assigned to Sintokogio Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Blasting abrasive and manufacturing method thereof, blasting method, and blasting apparatus" was invented by Shinji Kanda (Nagoya, Japan), Hiroki Mizuno (Nagoya, Japan) and Hayato Taniguchi (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blasting abrasive includes a particle of hot melt resin and abrasive grains to be firmly fixed to the particle, a blasting method further includes preparing a blasting abrasive including particles of hot melt resin and abrasive grains to be firmly fixed to the particles, heating gas, and injecting both the blasting abrasive and...