Intellectual Property Law

US Patent 7670581 - Manufacture of light emitting nanoparticles

This patent has some early priority going back to 2001 and includes some basic claims to the manufacture of nanoparticles for use in LEDs and electronic displays. Claim 1 reads:

1. A method for making nanoparticles, comprising:

providing an organometallic material selected from the group consisting of silicon, germanium and tin, disposed in a fluidic medium comprising a material selected from the group consisting of alcohols, amines and thiols, and

thermally decomposing the organometallic material to form nanoparticles.

Full post as published by TinytechIP on March 03, 2010 (boomark / email).