US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on Sept. 9 for "Infrared-emitting compound, and luminescent thin film, luminescent particle, wavelength conversion film and infrared-emitting surface light source containing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,366, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Infrared-emitting compound, and luminescent thin film, luminescent particle, wavelength conversion film and infrared-emitting surface light source containing same" was invented by Yasuo Miyata (Yokohama, Japan), Noriko Ueda (Hachioji, Japan), Hiroki Tatsumi (Toyohashi, Japan) and Ryo Nakabayashi (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An infrared-emitting compound has a structure represented by the following Formula (1a). In Formula (1a), Ar and ring A each independently represent an aryl ring, a heteroaryl ring or a fused ring thereof. Q-Ar represents an ...