US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Nov. 18 for "Methods of making n-doped transparent organic conductors and conductors made therefrom" (Indiana, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,020, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Methods of making n-doped transparent organic conductors and conductors made therefrom" was invented by Jianguo Mei (West Lafayette, Ind.), Ke Chen (Lafayette, Ind.), Ashkan Abtahi (Hillsboro, Ore.), Jinhyo Hwang (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Zhifan Ke (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transparent conductor (TC) is disclosed. The TC includes an n-doped conducting polymer on a transparent substrate. Thickness of the n-doped polymerized agent is between about 10 to about 200 nm."

The patent was filed on Oct. 25, 2023, under Ap...