US Patent Issued to CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, NANTES UNIVERSITE, UNIVERSITE DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE on Sept. 9 for "Derivatives of pyrrolopyrrole cyanines and uses thereof" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,198, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris), NANTES UNIVERSITE (Nantes, France) and UNIVERSITE DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE (Amiens, France).

"Derivatives of pyrrolopyrrole cyanines and uses thereof" was invented by Fabrice Odobel (Nantes, France), Yann Pellegrin (Orvault, France), Thibaut Baron (Nantes, France), Denis Jacquemin (Nantes, France), Frederic Sauvage (Orival, France) and Waad Naim (Amiens, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a compound having the following formula (1): as well as to the use of such as a dye sensitizer. Also disclosed is a dye sensitized solar ce...