ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,215, issued on May 13, was assigned to SHAANXI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (Xi'an, China).

"Methods for preparing a boron dipyrromethene (BODIPY) derivative and applications thereof" was invented by Taotao Qiang (Xi'an, China) and Fei Cheng (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for preparing a boron dipyrromethene (BODIPY) derivative and an application of the BODIPY derivative. The method comprises: 1) taking BODIPY-1, diphenylacetylene, copper acetate monohydrate, anhydrous sodium carbonate, and metal catalyst, and dispersing the BODIPY-1, the diphenylacetylene...