Patents by Inventor Stefan Metz

Stefan Metz has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240107873
    Abstract: The present invention relates to organic light-emitting devices comprising (a) an anode, (i) a cathode, and (e) an emitting layer between the anode and cathode, comprising 2 to 40% by weight of a triplet emitter X having a difference of the singlet energy (ES1(X)) and the triplet energy (ET1(X)) of less than or equal to 0.4 eV [?(ES1(X)) ?(ET1(X))?0.4 eV], 0.05 to 5.0% by weight of a fluorescent emitter Y and 55 to 97.95% by weight of a host compound(s), wherein the amount of the triplet emitter X, the fluorescent emitter Y and the host compound(s) adds up to a total of 100% by weight and the singlet energy of the triplet emitter X(ES1(X)) is greater than the singlet energy of the fluorescent emitter Y(ES1(Y)) [(ES1(X))>ES1(Y)].
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Christian Lennartz, Stefan Metz, Korinna Dormann, Gerhard Wagenblast, Ute Heinemeyer, Hannah Mangold, Minlu Zhang, Thomas Holcombe
  • Publication number: 20230403906
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display device including at least one illumination source configured for projecting at least one illumination beam on at least one scene; at least one optical sensor having at least one light sensitive area, where the optical sensor is configured for measuring at least one reflection light beam generated by the scene in response to illumination by the illumination beam; at least one translucent display configured for displaying information, where the illumination source and the optical sensor are placed in direction of propagation of the illumination light beam in front of the display, and at least one control unit, where the control unit is configured for turning off the display in an area of the illumination source during illumination and/or in an area of the optical sensor during measuring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Stefan METZ, Christian LENNARTZ, Friedrich SCHICK, Christoph PODES, Nils BERNER
  • Patent number: 11839140
    Abstract: The present invention relates to metal-carbene complexes comprising a central atom selected from iridium and platinum, and diazabenzimidazolocarbene ligands, to organic light diodes which comprise such complexes, to light-emitting layers comprising at least one such metal-carbene complex, to a device selected from the group comprising illuminating elements, stationary visual display units and mobile visual display units comprising such an OLED and to the use of such a metal-carbene complex in OLEDs, for example as emitter, matrix material, charge transport material and/or charge or exciton blocker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: UDC IRELAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Oliver Molt, Nicolle Langer, Evelyn Fuchs, Korinna Dormann, Christian Schildknecht, Soichi Watanabe, Gerhard Wagenblast, Christian Lennartz, Thomas Schaefer, Heinz Wolleb, Teresa Marina Figueira Duarte, Stefan Metz, Peter Murer
  • Patent number: 11765967
    Abstract: The present invention relates to organic light-emitting devices comprising (a) an anode, (i) a cathode, and (e) an emitting layer between the anode and cathode, comprising 2 to 40% by weight of a triplet emitter X having a difference of the singlet energy (ES1(X)) and the triplet energy (ET1(X)) of less than or equal to 0.4 eV [?(ES1(X))?(ET1(X))?0.4 eV], 0.05 to 5.0% by weight of a fluorescent emitter Y and 55 to 97.95% by weight of a host compound(s), wherein the amount of the triplet emitter X, the fluorescent emitter Y and the host compound(s) adds up to a total of 100% by weight and the singlet energy of the triplet emitter X (ES1(X)) is greater than the singlet energy of the fluorescent emitter Y (ES1(Y)) [(ES1(X))>ES1(Y)].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: UDC IRELAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Christian Lennartz, Stefan Metz, Korinna Dormann, Gerhard Wagenblast, Ute Heinemeyer, Hannah Mangold, Minlu Zhang, Thomas Holcombe
  • Patent number: 11605790
    Abstract: An organic electronic device, preferably an organic light-emitting diode (OLED), comprising at least one metal-carbene complex comprising one, two or three specific bidentate diazabenzimidazole carbene ligands; a light-emitting layer comprising said metal-carbene complex as emitter material, preferably in combination with at least one host material; the use of said metal-carbene complex in an OLED; an apparatus selected from the group consisting of stationary visual display units, mobile visual display units, illumination units, units in items of clothing, units in handbags, units in accessories, units in furniture and units in wallpaper comprising said organic electronic device, preferably said OLED, or said light-emitting layer; the metal-carbene complex comprising one, two or three specific bidentate diazabenzimidazole carbene ligands mentioned above and a process for the preparation of said metal-carbene complex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: UDC Ireland Limited
    Inventors: Peter Murer, Korinna Dormann, Flavio Luiz Benedito, Glauco Battagliarin, Stefan Metz, Ute Heinemeyer, Christian Lennartz, Gerhard Wagenblast, Soichi Watanabe, Thomas Geßner
  • Publication number: 20230026258
    Abstract: The present invention relates to metal-carbene complexes comprising a central atom selected from iridium and platinum, and diazabenzimidazolocarbene ligands, to organic light diodes which comprise such complexes, to light-emitting layers comprising at least one such metal-carbene complex, to a device selected from the group comprising illuminating elements, stationary visual display units and mobile visual display units comprising such an OLED and to the use of such a metal-carbene complex in OLEDs, for example as emitter, matrix material, charge transport material and/or charge or exciton blocker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Oliver Molt, Nicolle Langer, Evelyn Fuchs, Korinna Dormann, Christian Schildknecht, Soichi Watanabe, Gerhard Wagenblast, Christian Lennartz, Thomas Schaefer, Heinz Wolleb, Teresa Marina Figueira Duarte, Stefan Metz, Peter Murer
  • Publication number: 20220289796
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods of use comprising a stabilized recombinant E glycoprotein comprising a flavivirus E glycoprotein backbone, which comprises amino acid substitutions that stabilize the E glycoprotein in dimer conformation under physiological conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Brian Kuhlman, Stephan T. Kudlacek, Aravinda De Silva, Alexander Payne, Thanh Phan, Stefan Metz
  • Patent number: 11444254
    Abstract: The present invention relates to metal-carbene complexes comprising a central atom selected from iridium and platinum, and diazabenzimidazolocarbene ligands, to organic light diodes which comprise such complexes, to light-emitting layers comprising at least one such metal-carbene complex, to a device selected from the group comprising illuminating elements, stationary visual display units and mobile visual display units comprising such an OLED and to the use of such a metal-carbene complex in OLEDs, for example as emitter, matrix material, charge transport material and/or charge or exciton blocker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: UDC IRELAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Oliver Molt, Nicolle Langer, Evelyn Fuchs, Korinna Dormann, Christian Schildknecht, Soichi Watanabe, Gerhard Wagenblast, Christian Lennartz, Thomas Schaefer, Heinz Wolleb, Teresa Marina Figueira Duarte, Stefan Metz, Peter Murer
  • Publication number: 20220149300
    Abstract: The present invention relates to organic light-emitting devices comprising (a) an anode, (i) a cathode, and (e) an emitting layer between the anode and cathode, comprising 2 to 40% by weight of a triplet emitter X having a difference of the singlet energy (ES1(X)) and the triplet energy (ET1(X)) of less than or equal to 0.4 eV [?(ES1(X))?(ET1(X))?0.4 eV], 0.05 to 5.0% by weight of a fluorescent emitter Y and 55 to 97.95% by weight of a host compound(s), wherein the amount of the triplet emitter X, the fluorescent emitter Y and the host compound(s) adds up to a total of 100% by weight and the singlet energy of the triplet emitter X (ES1(X)) is greater than the singlet energy of the fluorescent emitter Y (ES1(Y)) [(ES1(X))>ES1(Y)].
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Christian Lennartz, Stefan Metz, Korinna Dormann, Gerhard Wagenblast, Ute Heinemeyer, Hannah Mangold, Minlu Zhang, Thomas-Wesley Holcombe
  • Publication number: 20220047143
    Abstract: Described herein are an autonomous household appliance (112) configured for performing at least one household task, a household system (110), a method (130) for temporarily augmenting the functionality of an autonomous household appliance (112), and a computer program. The autonomous household appliance (112) includes at least one task unit (116) arranged for performing the household task and an interface element (118) having at least one wire-bound coupling means (120), where the interface element (118) is configured for releasably and temporarily coupling the autonomous household appliance (112) to at least one smart device (114), where the autonomous household appliance (112) is configured for accessing at least one sensor device (122) of the at least one smart device (114) via the interface element (118) and for making use of at least one item of sensor information retrieved by the sensor device (122) when performing the household task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Stefan Metz, Robert Send, Ingmar Bruder
  • Patent number: 11075346
    Abstract: The present invention relates to organic light-emitting devices comprising (a) an anode, (i) a cathode, and (e) an emitting layer between the anode and cathode, comprising 2 to 40% by weight of a luminescent organometallic complex X having a difference of the singlet energy (ES1(X)) and the triplet energy (ET1(X)) of of ?0.3 eV [?(ES1(X))?(ET1(X))?0.3], 0.05 to 5.0% by weight of a fluorescent emitter Y and 55 to 97.95% by weight of a host compound(s), wherein the amount of the organometallic complex X, the fluorescent emitter Y and the host compound(s) adds up to a total of 100% by weight and the singlet energy of the luminescent organometallic complex X (ES1(X)) is greater than the singlet energy of the fluorescent emitter Y (ES1(Y)) [(ES1(X))>ES1(Y)].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: UDC Ireland Limited
    Inventors: Christian Lennartz, Stefan Metz, Korinna Dormann, Gerhard Wagenblast, Ute Heinemeyer, Hannah Mangold, Minlu Zhang, Thomas-Wesley Holcombe
  • Publication number: 20210126207
    Abstract: The present invention relates to metal-carbene complexes comprising a central atom selected from iridium and platinum, and diazabenzimidazolocarbene ligands, to organic light diodes which comprise such complexes, to light-emitting layers comprising at least one such metal-carbene complex, to a device selected from the group comprising illuminating elements, stationary visual display units and mobile visual display units comprising such an OLED and to the use of such a metal-carbene complex in OLEDs, for example as emitter, matrix material, charge transport material and/or charge or exciton blocker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Oliver Molt, Nicolle Langer, Evelyn Fuchs, Korinna Dormann, Christian Schildknecht, Soichi Watanabe, Gerhard Wagenblast, Christian Lennartz, Thomas Schaefer, Heinz Wolleb, Teresa Marina Figueira Duarte, Stefan Metz, Peter Murer
  • Patent number: 10916716
    Abstract: The present invention relates to metal-carbene complexes comprising a central atom selected from iridium and platinum, and diazabenzimidazolocarbene ligands, to organic light diodes which comprise such complexes, to light-emitting layers comprising at least one such metal-carbene complex, to a device selected from the group comprising illuminating elements, stationary visual display units and mobile visual display units comprising such an OLED and to the use of such a metal-carbene complex in OLEDs, for example as emitter, matrix material, charge transport material and/or charge or exciton blocker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: UDC IRELAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Oliver Molt, Nicolle Langer, Evelyn Fuchs, Korinna Dormann, Christian Schildknecht, Soichi Watanabe, Gerhard Wagenblast, Christian Lennartz, Thomas Schaefer, Heinz Wolleb, Teresa Marina Figueira Duarte, Stefan Metz, Peter Murer
  • Patent number: 10772948
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions directed to recombinant flavivirus E glycoprotein ectodomain dimers for use in diagnostic and immunotherapeutic methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Inventors: Stefan Metz, Aravinda Desilva, Michael Miley
  • Publication number: 20200251667
    Abstract: An organic electronic device, preferably an organic light-emitting diode (OLED), comprising at least one metal-carbene complex comprising one, two or three specific bidentate diazabenzimidazole carbene ligands; a light-emitting layer comprising said metal-carbene complex as emitter material, preferably in combination with at least one host material; the use of said metal-carbene complex in an OLED; an apparatus selected from the group consisting of stationary visual display units, mobile visual display units, illumination units, units in items of clothing, units in handbags, units in accessories, units in furniture and units in wallpaper comprising said organic electronic device, preferably said OLED, or said light-emitting layer; the metal-carbene complex comprising one, two or three specific bidentate diazabenzimidazole carbene ligands mentioned above and a process for the preparation of said metal-carbene complex.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Peter MURER, Korinna DORMANN, Flavio Luiz, Glauco BATTAGLIARIN, Stefan METZ, Ute HEINEMEYER, Christian LENNARTZ, Gerhard WAGENBLAST, Soichi WATANABE, Thomas GEßNER
  • Publication number: 20200044165
    Abstract: The present invention relates to organic light-emitting devices comprising (a) an anode, (i) a cathode, and (e) an emitting layer between the anode and cathode, comprising 2 to 40% by weight of a luminescent organometallic complex X having a difference of the singlet energy (ES1(X)) and the triplet energy (ET1(X)) of of ?0.3 eV [?(ES1(X))?(ET1(X))?0.3], 0.05 to 5.0% by weight of a fluorescent emitter Y and 55 to 97.95% by weight of a host compound(s), wherein the amount of the organometallic complex X, the fluorescent emitter Y and the host compound(s) adds up to a total of 100% by weight and the singlet energy of the luminescent organometallic complex X (ES1(X)) is greater than the singlet energy of the fluorescent emitter Y (ES1(Y)) [(ES1(X))>ES1(Y)].
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Christian Lennartz, Stefan Metz, Korinna Dormann, Gerhard Wagenblast, Ute Heinemeyer, Hannah Mangold, Minlu Zhang, Thomas-Wesley Holcombe
  • Publication number: 20190355917
    Abstract: An organic electronic device comprising at least one hole-transport material and/or at least one electron/exciton blocker material, wherein said at least one hole-transport material and/or said at least one electron/exciton blocker material is an Ir metal-carbene complex comprising one, two or three specific bidentate azabenzimidazole ligands; a hole transport layer or an electron/exciton blocking layer, comprising at least one Ir metal-carbene complex, comprising one, two or three specific bidentate azabenzimidazole ligands; an apparatus selected from the group consisting of stationary visual display units, mobile visual display units, illumination units, units in items of clothing, units in furniture and units in wallpaper, comprising the organic electronic device of the present invention or the hole transport layer or the electron/exciton blocking layer of the present invention; and the use of an Ir metal-carbene complex comprising one, two or three specific bidentate azabenzimidazole ligands according to
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Stefan Metz, Soichi Watanabe, Thomas Gessner, Korinna Dormann, Peter Murer, Christian Lennartz, Ute Heinemeyer, Glauco Battagliarin
  • Patent number: 10424746
    Abstract: The present invention relates to Pt- or Pd-amidine-carbene complexes, to organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) comprising at least one such Pt- or Pd-amidine-carbene complex, to light-emitting layers comprising at least one such Pt- or Pd-amidine-carbene complex, a device, for example stationary or mobile visual display units or illumination means, comprising a corresponding OLED, and to the use of the inventive Pt- or Pd-amidine-carbene complexes in OLEDs, for example as emitters, matrix materials, charge transport materials and/or charge blockers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: UDC IRELAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Stefan Metz, Thomas Strassner, Alexander Tronnier, Mario Tenne
  • Patent number: 10370396
    Abstract: Cyclometallated Ir complex comprising three N,N diaryl substituted carbene ligands, bearing substituents in the 2 position of the non-cyclometallated aryl ring; an organic electronic device, preferably an organic light-emitting diode (OLED), comprising at least one cyclometallated Ir complex as described above, a light-emitting layer comprising said cyclometallated Ir complex preferably as emitter material, preferably in combination with at least one host material, use of said cyclometallated Ir complex in an OLED and an apparatus selected from the group consisting of stationary visual display units, mobile visual display units, illumination units, units in items of clothing, units in handbags, units in accessories, units in furniture and units in wallpaper comprising said organic electronic device, preferably said OLED, or said light-emitting layer. The present invention further relates to a process for the preparation of said cyclometallated Ir complex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: UDC IRELAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Stefan Metz, Korinna Dormann, Glauco Battagliarin, Christian Eickhoff, Flavio Luiz Benedito, Soichi Watanabe, Gerhard Wagenblast, Thomas Geßner, Christian Lennartz, Peter Murer
  • Patent number: 10374172
    Abstract: An organic electronic device comprising at least one hole-transport material and/or at least one electron/exciton blocker material, wherein said at least one hole-transport material and/or said at least one electron/exciton blocker material is an Ir metal-carbene complex comprising one, two or three specific bidentate azabenzimidazole ligands; a hole transport layer or an electron/exciton blocking layer, comprising at least one Ir metal-carbene complex, comprising one, two or three specific bidentate azabenzimidazole ligands; an apparatus selected from the group consisting of stationary visual display units, mobile visual display units, illumination units, units in items of clothing, units in furniture and units in wallpaper, comprising the organic electronic device of the present invention or the hole transport layer or the electron/exciton blocking layer of the present invention; and the use of an Ir metal-carbene complex comprising one, two or three specific bidentate azabenzimidazole ligands according to
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: UDC Ireland Limited
    Inventors: Stefan Metz, Soichi Watanabe, Thomas Geßner, Korinna Dormann, Peter Murer, Christian Lennartz, Ute Heinemeyer, Glauco Battagliarin