ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,388, issued on April 7, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Berkley, Calif.) and Rohm and Haas Co. (Collegeville, Pa.).

"Aqueous dispersion of cerium (III) carbonate particles" was invented by James C. Bohling (Collegeville, Pa.), Juan F. Callejas (Collegeville, Pa.), Alexander Katz (Berkeley, Calif.), Manish K. Mishra (Berkeley, Calif.) and Antony K. Van Dyk (Blue Bell, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a composition comprising an aqueous dispersion of cerium (III) carbonate particles having a z-average particle size in the range of from 5 nm to 500 nm, which composition fur...