ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,954, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SHOEI CHEMICAL INC. (Tokyo).
"Method of producing core/shell semiconductor nanoparticles" was invented by Takafumi Moriyama (Tosu, Japan), Yuko Mitsuka (Tosu, Japan), Hirokazu Sasaki (Tosu, Japan) and Makoto Kido (Tosu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing core/shell semiconductor nanoparticles, the method comprising a shell formation step of adding a solution of group VI element precursor while adding a solution of zinc branched chain carboxylate to a core particle-dispersed solution to allow the zinc branched chain carboxylate to react with the group VI element precurs...