US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on April 22 for "Bipolar nanocomposite semiconductors" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,409, issued on April 22, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Bipolar nanocomposite semiconductors" was invented by Boris N. Feigelson (Springfield, Va.), Alexander L. Efros (Annandale, Va.), Benjamin L. Greenberg (Alexandria, Va.) and Michael Shur (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bipolar nanocomposite semiconductor (BNS) material in which electrons and holes are separately transported throughout the BNS volume via an interpenetrating plurality of networks, where some of the networks have one conductivity type and others have the opp...