US Patent Issued to THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY on June 30 for "Method for producing semiconductor quantum dots" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,740, issued on June 30, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, N.J.).

"Method for producing semiconductor quantum dots" was invented by Michael Hecht (Skillman, N.J.), Sarangan Chari (Princeton Junction, N.J.) and Leah Spangler (Monmouth Junction, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Biomineralization-the synthesis of inorganic materials using proteins-has recently gained interest as a low cost, green route for the production of metal chalcogenide semiconductor nanocrystals. Typical biomineralization approaches rely on proteins or biomolecules identified from organisms which possess a native biomineralization...