US Patent Issued to SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL on Feb. 10 for "Quantum dot-containing polymer and method for producing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,832, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Quantum dot-containing polymer and method for producing the same" was invented by Shinji Aoki (Annaka, Japan), Yoshihiro Nojima (Annaka, Japan) and Kazuya Tobishima (Annaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum dot-containing polymer contains quantum dots that emit fluorescence by excitation light, wherein the quantum dot-containing polymer is a combined polymer of the quantum dots in which a ligand having a reactive substituent is coordinated to the outermost surface and a silicone compound having a polymerizable substituent. The quantum dot-cont...