US Patent Issued to The Chinese University of Hong Kong on Sept. 9 for "Light-mediated manipulation of droplets stabilized by fluorinated nanoparticles with photothermal effect" (Chinese, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,490, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong).

"Light-mediated manipulation of droplets stabilized by fluorinated nanoparticles with photothermal effect" was invented by Yi-Ping Ho (Hong Kong), Guangyao Cheng (Yueyang, China), Sebastian Beyer (Hong Kong), Ho Pui Ho (Hong Kong), To Ngai (Hong Kong) and Kuan Ting Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fluorinated metal nanoparticles (f-MNPs) are metal nanoparticles and/or semiconductor nanoparticles having a plurality of fluorinated alkyl ligands attached to the surfaces of the nanoparticles where the f-MNPs are greater than 20 ...