ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,187, issued on June 2, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).
"Metallized polymer particles and related methods" was invented by Nan-Xing Hu (Oakville, Canada), Yulin Wang (Oakville, Canada) and Sandra J. Gardner (Oakville, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Metallized polymer particle compositions may comprise polymer particles, and a metal coating on an outer surface of at least a portion of the polymer particles. The metal coating comprises a plating metal and overlays a plurality of two-dimensional conductive nanoparticles and a catalyst metal. The metal coating may be formed by at least an electroless plating process co...