Patents Assigned to Designed Materials Ltd
  • Method and apparatus for treating diamond using liquid metal saturated with carbon
    Patent number: 8679443
    Abstract: A method of treating a diamond, the method comprising: (i) providing a liquid metal saturated with carbon with respect to graphite precipitation; (ii) lowering the temperature of the liquid metal such that the liquid metal is saturated with carbon with respect to diamond precipitation; (iii) immersing a diamond in the liquid metal; and (iv) removing the diamond from the metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Designed Materials Ltd
    Inventors: Philip H. Taylor, A. Marshall Stoneham