ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,382, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ECOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPERIEURE (Montreal, Canada).

"Amorphous titanium dioxide precursor material, method of producing thereof and method of controlling crystalline phases thereof" was invented by Jaime Alberto Benevides Guerrero (Montreal), Charles Philippe Trudeau (Montreal), Luis Felipe Gerlein Reyes (Montreal) and Sylvain Cloutier (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Titanium dioxide (TiO2) forms the basis of devices for applications including sensing devices, solar cells, photo-electrochromics, and photocatalysis. Such devices exploit different phases of TiO2 within such devices and a...