ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,348, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Transparent electrode and electronic device equipped with same" was invented by Shun Furukawa (Sagamihara, Japan) and Shinya Otsu (Koganei, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transparent electrode has at least a conductive material layer on a transparent substrate. The conductive material layer is a metal nanowire layer. The transparent electrode has an organic layer containing a nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclic compound having a structure represented by the following Formula (1) adjacent to the metal nanowire layer,In Formula (1), A1 and A2 represen...