US Patent Issued to University of Washington, NLM Photonics on Sept. 2 for "Sequential synthesis technique for deposition of aligned organic electro-optic materials" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,449, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle) and NLM Photonics (Seattle).

"Sequential synthesis technique for deposition of aligned organic electro-optic materials" was invented by Delwin L. Elder (Seattle), Larry R. Dalton III (Seattle), Lewis E. Johnson (Seattle), Scott R. Hammond (Seattle), Bruce H. Robinson (Seattle) and Kevin M. O'Malley (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are organic electrooptic materials. The electrooptic materials are functionalized by novel methods and structures. The electrooptic materials are structured with a head and a tail where the head and tail sequentially...