US Patent Issued to Queen's University at Kingston, The University of Western Ontario, Universite Laval on Sept. 15 for "Method of selective deposition of small molecules on metal surfaces" (Canadian, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,548, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Queen's University at Kingston (Kingston, Canada), The University of Western Ontario (London, Canada) and Universite Laval (Quebec City).

"Method of selective deposition of small molecules on metal surfaces" was invented by Cathleen M. Crudden (Kingston, Canada), Sean Barry (Ottawa), Paul Ragogna (Stratford, Canada), Ishwar Singh (Brampton, Canada), Alex Jeffrey Veinot (Middleton, Canada), Eden Ramona Goodwin (Ottawa), Peter George Gordon (Ottawa), Tianchi Zhang (Jiande, China), Peter McBreen (Quebec, Canada) and Justin Lomax (London, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of selectiv...