US Patent Issued to The Regents of The University of Michigan, University of Bath on Feb. 4 for "Devices and methods for determining chiral optical properties from third harmonic Mie scattering of semiconductor nanohelices" (British, Czech, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,043, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and University of Bath (Bath, Great Britain).

"Devices and methods for determining chiral optical properties from third harmonic Mie scattering of semiconductor nanohelices" was invented by Nicholas A. Kotov (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Ventsislav Valev (Bath, Great Britain), Lukas Ohnoutek (Zlin, Czech Republic) and Ji-Young Kim (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for detecting chiral properties from a sample are provided. Light may be directed towards a sample in contact with a chiral nanoparticle. Third harmon...