ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,434, issued on March 31, was assigned to TOYO ALUMINIUM K.K. (Osaka, Japan).

"Aluminum particle group and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Isao Murakami (Osaka, Japan), Jun Kusui (Osaka, Japan), Takamasa Tanaka (Osaka, Japan) and Kenta Ishigami (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aluminum particle group composed of aluminum particles, as observed in an image thereof obtained through a scanning electron microscope, has an average circularity of 0.75 or more, and an average particle diameter of D50 of 10 micro metre or more and less than 100 micro metre, and satisfies Ax3less than equal toB and also satis...