US Patent Issued to Merck Patent, Versum Materials US on Aug. 5 for "Lanthanide and lanthanide-like transition metal complexes" (German, American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,273, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Merck Patent GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany) and Versum Materials US LLC (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Lanthanide and lanthanide-like transition metal complexes" was invented by Christoph Wetzel (Ehingen, Germany), Holger Heil (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Michal Krompiec (Southampton, Great Britain), Lars Lietzau (Rossdorf, Germany), David Bruge (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Ming Fang (Andover, Mass.) and Sergei V. Ivanov (Schnecksville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed and claimed subject matter provides precursors having at least one tethered cyclopentadienyl ligand ("Cp ligand"), at least one am...