ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,402, issued on May 19, was assigned to UDC IRELAND Ltd. (Dublin).

"Use of transition metal carbene complexes in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)" was invented by Martina Egen (Dossenheim, Germany), Klaus Kahle (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Markus Bold (Dirmstein, Germany), Thomas Gessner (Heidelberg, Germany), Christian Lennartz (Schifferstadt, Germany), Simon Nord (Roemerberg, Germany), Hans-Werner Schmidt (Bayreuth, Germany), Mukundan Thelakkat (Bayreuth, Germany), Markus Baete (Bayreuth, Germany), Christian Neuber (Kulmain, Germany), Wolfgang Kowalsky (Bayreuth, Germany), Christian Schildknecht (Braunschweig, Germany) and Hans-Hermann Johannes (Braunschweig, Germany).

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