ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,348, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Universal Display Corp. (Ewing, N.J.).

"Organic electroluminescent devices" was invented by Michael Fusella (Lawrenceville, N.J.) and Nicholas J. Thompson (New Hope, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide an emissive layer, a first electrode layer, a plurality of nanoparticles and a material disposed between the first electrode layer and the plurality of nanoparticles. In some embodiments, the device may include a second electrode layer and a substrate, where the second electrode layer is disposed on the substrate, and the emissive layer is dispos...