ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,962, issued on March 24, was assigned to Alliance for Energy Innovation LLC (Golden, Colo.).

"Fluidic systems and methods for the manufacture of nanoparticles" was invented by Frederick G. Baddour (Denver), Susan E. Habas (Boulder, Colo.), Brittney E. Petel (Lakewood, Colo.) and Alexander Kenneth Yung (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method of synthesizing metal nanoparticles, where the method includes mixing a metal precursor with a stabilizing ligand in a first zone of a first fluidic device to form a first mixture and mixing the first mixture with a reductant in a second zone...