ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,778, issued on July 21, was assigned to SRI International (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Transparent conductive oxide particles and methods related thereto" was invented by Steven Crouch-Baker (Palo Alto, Calif.), Brian Slovick (San Mateo, Calif.) and Albert Hirschon (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples are directed a plurality of particles comprising transparent conductive oxide particles. Example transparent conductive oxide particles have a median diameter of about 200 nanometer (nm) to about 500 nm in the particle size distribution, and a plasma wavelength of about less than 2000 nm. Additionally, the transparent c...