ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,093, issued on April 7, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Organic semiconductor device with protective spinel oxide layer" was invented by Makoto Nakazumi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a semiconductor device A including: a first electrode 10; a second electrode 20; a semiconductor layer 30 in contact with the first electrode 10 and the second electrode 20; and a protective layer 40 configured to cover at least a part of a surface of the semiconductor layer 30, wherein the protective layer 40 includes a spinel oxide."

The patent was filed on Aug. 25, 2021, under Application No. 17/411,805.

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