US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Michigan on July 14 for "Organic optoelectronic device and method" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,542, issued on July 14, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan.

"Organic optoelectronic device and method" was invented by Stephen R. Forrest (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optoelectronic system comprising a flexible optoelectronic device, wherein the device comprises a flexible plastic substrate, a coating comprising a glass or a polymer, positioned over the flexible plastic substrate, an anode and a cathode positioned over the coating, an organic heterojunction positioned between the anode and the cathode, comprising a donor material and an acceptor material, and an encapsulating layer compri...