US Patent Issued to HODOGAYA CHEMICAL on April 15 for "Compound, hole transport material, and photoelectric conversion element including same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,523, issued on April 15, was assigned to HODOGAYA CHEMICAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Compound, hole transport material, and photoelectric conversion element including same" was invented by Yuya Ohkura (Tokyo), Hideaki Takahashi (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a compound that is useful as a hole transport material for providing a device for converting light into electricity that is capable of extracting current with high efficiency, and a device for converting light into electricity and a solar cell that include the compound in a hole transport layer and have favo...