US Patent Issued to The University of Southern California on May 27 for "Symmetric charge transfer compounds for organic photovoltaics" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,738, issued on May 27, was assigned to The University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

"Symmetric charge transfer compounds for organic photovoltaics" was invented by Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, Calif.) and Austin Mencke (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is related to organic acceptor-donor-acceptor compounds as non-fullerene acceptors for use in organic photovoltaics."

The patent was filed on July 27, 2021, under Application No. 17/386,183.

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