ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,544, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea) and UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA (Barcelona, Spain).

"Organometallic compound, composition including same, organic light-emitting device, and electronic apparatus" was invented by Yongsik Jung (Seoul, South Korea), Laura Rodriguez Raurell (Barcelona, Spain), Joao Carlos Lima (Caparica, Portugal), Hyeonho Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungyeon Kwak (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kyuyoung Hwang (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An organometallic compound represented by Formula 1 wherein, M1 to M4 are each independently a first...