US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Electric Industries on Sept. 8 for "Synthetic single crystal diamond and method for producing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,456, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Synthetic single crystal diamond and method for producing same" was invented by Hitoshi Sumiya (Osaka, Japan) and Jin Hwa Lee (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a synthetic single crystal diamond containing conjugants each composed of one vacancy and one boron atom, wherein the concentration of boron atoms based on atom numbers is 0.1 ppm or more and 100 ppm or less."

The patent was filed on Nov. 2, 2021, under Application No. 18/034,235.

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