US Patent Issued to OTI Lumionics on Dec. 9 for "Materials for forming a nucleation-inhibiting coating and devices incorporating same" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,313, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to OTI Lumionics Inc. (Mississauga, Canada).

"Materials for forming a nucleation-inhibiting coating and devices incorporating same" was invented by Michael Helander (Mississauga, Canada), Scott Nicholas Genin (Mississauga, Canada) and Zhibin Wang (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An opto-electronic device comprising a nucleation inhibiting coating (NIC) disposed on a surface of the device in a first portion of a lateral aspect thereof; and a conductive coating disposed on a surface of the device in a second portion of the lateral aspect thereof; wherein an initial sticking probabil...