ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,730, issued on April 21, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"Metal complex and light emitting device" was invented by Yun Chi (Kowloon, Hong Kong) and Jie Yan (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal complex having at least one chelating N-heterocyclic carbene ligand. The metal complex provides a blue emission. This is useful for organic light emitting diode (OLED) components where blue emitters have trailed behind the advances of red and green emitters."

The patent was filed on Aug. 22, 2022, under Application No. 17/892,250.

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