US Patent Issued to OSAKA UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKAI NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH SYSTEM, NICHIA on April 1 for "Semiconductor nanoparticles and method of producing semiconductor nanoparticles" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,273, issued on April 1, was assigned to OSAKA UNIVERSITY (Suita, Japan), NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKAI NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH SYSTEM (Nagoya, Japan) and NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Semiconductor nanoparticles and method of producing semiconductor nanoparticles" was invented by Susumu Kuwabata (Ibaraki, Japan), Taro Uematsu (Suita, Japan), Kazutaka Wajima (Toyonaka, Japan), Tsukasa Torimoto (Nagoya, Japan), Tatsuya Kameyama (Nagoya, Japan), Daisuke Oyamatsu (Tokushima, Japan) and Kenta Niki (Tokushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor nanoparticle includes a core and a shell covering a surf...