US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Sept. 1 for "Molecularly doped nanodiamond" (District Of Columbia, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,132, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Molecularly doped nanodiamond" was invented by Rhonda M. Stroud (Washington), Matthew J. Crane (Seattle) and Peter J. Pauzauskie (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making molecularly doped nanodiamond. A versatile method for doping diamond by adding dopants into a carbon precursor and producing diamond at high pressure, high temperature conditions. Molecularly doped nanodiamonds that have direct incorporation of dopants and therefore without the need for ion implantati...