ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,277, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Merck Patent GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany).
"Electronic switching device" was invented by Peer Kirsch (Darmstadt, Germany), Sebastian Resch (Darmstadt, Germany), Henning Seim (Darmstadt, Germany), Itai Lieberman (Darmstadt, Germany), Shintaro Arai (Tokyo), Marc Tornow (Munich), Takuya Kamiyama (Munich), Julian Dlugosch (Munich) and Mansour Moinpour (Wilmington, Del.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an electronic switching device comprising an organic molecular layer in contact with a metal nitride electrode for use in memory, sensors, field-effect transistors or Jos...