ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,880, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Heraeus Deutschland Gmbh & Co. KG (Hanau, Germany).
"Precious metal nanoparticles" was invented by Sebastian Kunz (Monsheim, Germany), Matthias Arenz (Bern, Switzerland), Jonathan Quinson (Gouezec, France) and Laura Kacenauskaite (Vilnius, Lithuania).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing a colloidal dispersion of precious metal nanoparticles free of organic adsorbates that have a molar weight above 100 g/mol, the colloidal dispersion of the precious metal nanoparticles obtained by the method according to the invention, solid and re-dispersed precious metal nanoparticles and produ...