ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,580, issued on April 21, was assigned to DuPont Specialty Materials Korea Ltd. (South Korea).

"Organic electroluminescent compound and organic electroluminescent device comprising the same" was invented by Hyo-Soon Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Mi-Ja Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Kyung-Hoon Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Kyoung-Jin Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jin-Ri Hong (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), So-Mi Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Hyun Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an organic electroluminescent compound comprising a ligand represented by formula 1,...