ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,864, issued on March 4, was assigned to GUANGZHOU CHINARAY OPTOELECTRONIC MATERIALS LTD. (Guangdong, China) and THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG (Hong Kong).

"Phosphine oxide group-contained transition metal complex, and polymer, mixture, composition, and organic electronic device thereof" was invented by Chi Ming Leung (Guangdong, China), Wing-Wah Vivian Yam (Hong Kong), Sihang Chen (Guangdong, China), Hong Huang (Guangdong, China), Junyou Pan (Guangdong, China) and Caijuan Yan (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phosphine oxide group-contained transition metal complex represented by chemical formula (1), and a polymer, a ...