ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,230, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Merck Patent GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany).

"Materials for organic electroluminescent devices" was invented by Remi Anemian (Seoul, South Korea), Teresa Mujica-Fernaud (Darmstadt, Germany), Myoung-Gi Jo (Anyang-si, South Korea), Hyeon-Hui Kang (Uiwang-Si, South Korea) and Jochen Pfister (Seeheim-Jugenheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (1) which are suitable for use in electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, and to electronic devices, which comprise these compounds."

The patent was filed on May 31, 2017,...