US Patent Issued to KYUSHU UNIV. NATIONAL UNIV., HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on July 14 for "Organic light receiving element and light receiving device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,932, issued on July 14, was assigned to KYUSHU UNIV. NATIONAL UNIV. Corp. (Fukuoka, Japan) and HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Organic light receiving element and light receiving device" was invented by Chihaya Adachi (Fukuoka, Japan), Hajime Nakanotani (Fukuoka, Japan), Takahiko Yamanaka (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Shigeo Hara (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An organic light-receiving element includes an organic light-receiving layer containing a plurality of organic semiconductor molecules. Each of the plurality of organic semiconductor molecules is a molecule in which an excited state enabling reverse int...