ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,359, issued on March 25, was assigned to United Arab Emirates University (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates).

"Method of preparing a hybrid inorganic-organic MOF compound with high photoluminescence (PL) quantum yields (PLQY)" was invented by Na'il Saleh Ibrahim (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates) and Shaikha S. Al Neyadi (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing a hybrid inorganic-organic metal organic framework compound in the form of 3TCC@MOF-177 solids, with high photoluminescence (PL) quantum yields (PLQY) by mixing a dye in the form of 1-cyano-2-[Alpha-terthiophen-2-yl]-vinyl)carboxylic acid with...