US Patent Issued to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKAI NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH SYSTEM, TANAKA KIKINZOKU KOGYO on Oct. 14 for "Semiconductor nanoparticles composed of AgAuS-based multicomponent compound" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,938, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKAI NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH SYSTEM (Nagoya, Japan) and TANAKA KIKINZOKU KOGYO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor nanoparticles composed of AgAuS-based multicomponent compound" was invented by Tsukasa Torimoto (Nagoya, Japan), Tatsuya Kameyama (Nagoya, Japan), Mariko Hasegawa (Nagoya, Japan), Chie Miyamae (Nagoya, Japan), Hiroki Sato (Tsukuba, Japan), Yuusuke Ohshima (Tsukuba, Japan) and Shojiro Kikuchi (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a semiconductor nanoparticle composed of a compound containing Ag, Au, S...