ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,045, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC (Golden, Colo.).

"Chiral induced spin selectivity enabling a room temperature spin polarized light emitting diode" was invented by Matthew Craig Beard (Arvada, Colo.), Haipeng Lu (Hong Kong), Yaxin Zhai (Changsha, China), Young-Hoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Joseph Jonathan Berry (Boulder, Colo.) and Joseph Matthew Luther (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are spin polarized light emitting diodes (LEDs) and methods of making the same. Spin polarization is achieved via chiral induced spin selectivity where, for example, a stereoche...