ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,317, issued on May 27, was assigned to IDEMITSU KOSAN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Compound, material for organic electroluminescent elements, organic electroluminescent element, and electronic device" was invented by Kei Yoshida (Sodegaura, Japan), Masatoshi Saito (Sodegaura, Japan), Masato Nakamura (Sodegaura, Japan), Sayaka Mizutani (Sodegaura, Japan), Masato Mitani (Sodegaura, Japan), Yoshinori Aoyama (Sodegaura, Japan) and Ryota Takahashi (Sodegaura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compound that further improves the capability of an organic electroluminescent device, an organic electroluminescent device having a further improved de...