ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,329, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to WONIK MATERIALS Co. LTD. (Cheongju-si, South Korea) and WONIK MATERIALS NORTH AMERICA LLC (Germantown, Wis.).

"Method for production of molybdenum dioxide dichloride" was invented by Seong Ho Han (Cheongju-si, South Korea), Andrey Korolev (Milwaukee) and Venkata Ramana Gandikota (Germantown, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for producing molybdenum dioxide dichloride, which is a very efficient method that does not use dangerous chlorine gas and high reaction temperature and is capable of obtaining molybdenum dioxide dichloride without solvent at a ...