US Patent Issued on June 3 for "Forming ester-substituted polymers for organic photovoltaics" (Oklahoma, North Carolina, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,767, issued on June 3.

"Forming ester-substituted polymers for organic photovoltaics" was invented by Laura Nielsen (Bartlesville, Okla.), Reed Eisenhart (Bartlesville, Okla.), Victoria Suding (Bartlesville, Okla.), Alyssa Brooke Chinen-Mendez (Wexford, Pa.), Brian J. Worfolk (Raleigh, N.C.), Zach L. Cramer (Bartlesville, Okla.) and Hualong Pan (Bartlesville, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprised of combiningMe3Sn-X-SnMe3 to form a solution containing a polymerIn this polymer R, R', and R" are independently selected from the group consisting of: H, Cl, F, CN, alkyl, alkoxy, alkylthio, ester, ketone and aryl groups; a...