ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,595, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Composite material comprising an oxide of zinc and titanium, film and light-emitting device" was invented by Hsiang-Jui Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Han-Cheng Yeh (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite material includes a core particle and a silane coupling agent including a double-bond or an epoxy group grafted onto the surface of the core particle. The core particle includes an oxide of zinc and titanium, and zinc and titanium have a weight ratio of 1:0.4 to 1:0.9. The composite material may react with a radical in...