ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,487, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Organic device and method for producing organic device" was invented by Nozomu Matsukawa (Nara, Japan), Katsuya Nozawa (Osaka, Japan), Shinichi Machida (Osaka, Japan) and Sanshiro Shishido (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An organic device includes at least one electrode, an insulating layer adjacent to the at least one electrode in a plan view, and an organic layer that is continuously in contact with an upper surface of the at least one electrode and an upper surface of the insulating layer. The organic layer c...