ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,751, issued on March 17, was assigned to HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAT ZU BERLIN (Berlin) and FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Photoconductor and method for producing same" was invented by William Ted Masselink (Berlin), Mykhaylo Petrovych Semtsiv (Berlin) and Bjorn Globisch (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates inter alia to a photoconductor (10) comprising a multilayer (13) which comprises a plurality of photoconductive semiconductor layers (131-134). According to the invention, the multilayer (13) comprises at least two sublayers (130) which each comprise at least a fir...