ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,556, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to XEROX Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Fabrication of benzoxazine functionalized particles" was invented by Gabriel Iftime (Newark, Calif.), Junhua Wei (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Mahati Chintapalli (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes adding particles to an alkaline solution, stirring the solution to cause the particles to acquire hydroxyl groups producing activated particles, dispersing the activated particles into a solvent solution, adding acetylene benzoxazine into the solvent solution, mixing the solvent solution, removing the solvent from the solvent solution to ...