US Patent Issued to Tokuyama on Dec. 2 for "Method for producing aluminum nitride powder, aluminum nitride powder, and package" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,171, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Tokuyama Corp. (Shunan, Japan).

"Method for producing aluminum nitride powder, aluminum nitride powder, and package" was invented by Yasuyuki Yamamoto (Shunan, Japan) and Hideki Satou (Shunan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To produce aluminum nitride in the form of a lump that can easily be broken down by light pulverization, which could not be obtained by a conventional combustion synthesis method. A method for producing aluminum nitride powder by a combustion synthesis method using a metallic aluminum powder, characterized in that a powder mixture in which an aluminum nitride powder havi...