US Patent Issued to The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning/McGill University on Aug. 11 for "Methods and devices for solid state nanowire devices" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,762, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning/McGill University (Montreal).

"Methods and devices for solid state nanowire devices" was invented by Zetian Mi (Verdun, Canada), Hieu Pham Trung Nguyen (Montreal) and Songrui Zhao (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solid state sources offer potential advantages including high brightness, electricity savings, long lifetime, and higher color rendering capability, when compared to incandescent and fluorescent light sources. To date however, many of these advantages have not been borne out in providing white LED lamps for general lighting ...