ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,978, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to ADEKA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Zinc compound, thin-film forming raw material, thin-film, and method of producing thin-film" was invented by Ryota Fukushima (Tokyo), Keisuke Takeda (Tokyo) and Masaki Enzu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a zinc compound represented by the following general formula (1) or (2):in the formula (1), R1 represents an unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, etc., R2 and R5 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, an unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, etc., and R3 and R4 each independently represent a hydr...