US Patent Issued to University of Southern California on March 17 for "Carbene compounds and organic electroluminescent devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,261, issued on March 17, was assigned to University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

"Carbene compounds and organic electroluminescent devices" was invented by Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim Hills, Calif.), Peter I. Djurovich (Long Beach, Calif.), Rasha Hamze (Los Angeles), Shuyang Shi (Los Angeles) and Moon Chul Jung (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a compound having Formula Iwhere rings A and B are independently a five-membered or six-membered, carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring, each of which is optionally aromatic; together with nitrogen atoms bonded to ring A and ring B, ring W is a 5-membered N-heterocycli...