US Patent Issued to United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on June 17 for "Laser fabrication of lead selenide thin film" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,360, issued on June 17, was assigned to United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Laser fabrication of lead selenide thin film" was invented by Joel T. Harrison (Henrico, Va.) and Mool C. Gupta (Keswick, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser sintering deposition method is provided for disposing lead selenide onto a substrate. The method includes: wet-milling a lead selenide ingot mixed with methanol into a colloidal slurry containing nanocrystals; separating the colloidal slurry into nanocrystal particles and the methanol; depositing the nanocrystal particles to a substrate; and emi...