ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,476, issued on June 30, was assigned to OTI Lumionics Inc. (Mississauga, Canada).

"Opto-electronic device with nanoparticle deposited layers" was invented by Michael Helander (Mississauga, Canada), Zhibin Wang (Mississauga, Canada), Yi-Lu Chang (Mississauga, Canada) and Qi Wang (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A layered semiconductor device comprises at least one particle structure disposed on an underlying layer that comprises a particle material in contact with a contact material selected from: a seed material, a co-deposited dielectric material and/or at least one patterning material. A method for controllably s...