ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,506, issued on March 25, was assigned to SHOEI CHEMICAL INC. (Tokyo).

"Films comprising bright silver based quaternary nanostructures" was invented by Ravisubhash Tangirala (Fremont, Calif.), Jay Yamanaga (Campbell, Calif.), Wenzhou Guo (San Jose, Calif.), Christopher Sunderland (San Jose, Calif.), Ashenafi Damtew Mamuye (Milpitas, Calif.), Chunming Wang (Milpitas, Calif.), Eunhee Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Nahyoung Kim (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are films comprising Ag In, Ga, and S (AIGS) nanostructures and at least one ligand bound to the nanostructures. In some embodiment, the AIGS nano...