US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Aug. 4 for "Encapsulation of palette flakes with nanostructured copper oxide as LiDAR reflective black pigments" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,398, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Encapsulation of palette flakes with nanostructured copper oxide as LiDAR reflective black pigments" was invented by Songtao Wu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Debasish Banerjee (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Torin C. Peck (Owosso, Mich.) and Cynthia Gazepis Templeman (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encapsulated palette flake includes a palette flake having a first surface and a second surface, and a layer on at least one of the first surface and the second surface. A blackness My of the...