Lab-grown diamond producing company Scio Diamond Technology Corporation received a new patent for Gemstone Production from Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) Diamond Plate. This is its 28th US patent, granted on granted on January 5, 2016.

“This is the latest addition to our extensive patent portfolio, which ensures broad intellectual property protection for our industry-leading diamond manufacturing processes,” explained Gerald McGuire, CEO, Scio Diamond. “Our exclusive processes allow us to grow brilliant, beautiful diamonds that are identical to mined diamonds that grew beneath the earth for centuries.”

“Our proprietary CVD process allows us to produce stunning diamonds in color and size combinations that are seldom found in mines, such as fancy color pink diamonds that are prized for fine jewelry,” McGuire continued. The company’s technology delivered the first CVD single-crystal diamond plates, CVD-grown diamond gems and one-inch square single-crystal diamond wafers.

Scio Diamond’s patents also facilitate the company’s opportunities to produce diamond material for potential industrial applications, such as semiconductors, water treatment and purification, high-voltage power switching, lasers, quantum computing and communications, wear resistant coatings and others as they are developed.