ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,208, issued on May 12, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.) and Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences, v.v.i. (Brno, Czech Republic).
"Titanium dioxide particles and methods of making the same" was invented by Tewodros Asefa (Piscataway, N.J.), Tao Zhang (Piscataway, N.J.), Eliska Materna Mikmekova (Brno, Czech Republic) and Alexei M. Tyryshkin (Piscataway, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are TiO2-x nanoparticles and materials that show unusual photophysical and optical properties. These TiO2-x particles and materials can be used as efficie...