ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,917, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to PENTAPRO MATERIALS INC. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Method for preparing boron nitride thin film and boron nitride thin film" was invented by Wen-Che Kuo (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Wen-Lian Lee (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Hao-Chun Lee (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Yuan-Liang Kuo (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Chien-Ho Liu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Ming-Sin Tsai (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for preparing a boron nitride thin film and the boron nitride thin film itself. The method primarily includes providing a precursor containing boron and...