ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,328, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Carbon supported surface functionalized silver nanoparticles" was invented by Robert Claridge (Cambridge, Canada), Yujie Zhu (Mississauga, Canada), Yulin Wang (Oakville, Canada) and David Lawton (Burlington, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Carbon supported surface functionalized silver nanoparticles and a method for preparing the same are disclosed. For example, a composition includes carbon supported surface functionalized silver nanoparticles, The methods include preparing a liquid-containing composition comprising a plurality of silver nanoparticles and ...