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University of Seoul Industry Cooperation Foundation

University of Seoul Industry Cooperation Foundation shows a diverse patent portfolio, with a surprising recent surge in Organic Electronics (OLED) patents, which grew by 150.0% in 2025 to become 13.3% of their total portfolio, despite a sharp decline so far in 2026. Concurrently, categories like Optical Elements & Systems and Image Processing have seen significant declines, with 100.0% year-over-year drops in 2024 and 2026, indicating a shifting focus away from these areas.

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Yearly patent publications since 2023

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83 US filings (since 2023) · 12 categories · 15 themes

OLED Emitter Materials

Development and optimization of organic chemical compounds and their structures, including guest-host systems and metal complexes, used within the emission layer to achieve specific light emission characteristics such as color, efficiency, and operational lifetime.

Organic Electronics (OLED)
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6since 2023
0.0%YoY
Emerging Contaminant Removal

Specific techniques and materials developed to remove persistent or difficult-to-treat pollutants from water, such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), micropollutants, or specific industrial chemicals.

Catalysts & Reactors
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5since 2023
-33.3%YoY
Display Panel Manufacturing & Encapsulation

Techniques and structural designs for fabricating the physical layers of an OLED display, including material deposition, patterning, and methods to protect the active organic layers from environmental degradation like moisture and oxygen.

Organic Electronics (OLED)
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4since 2023
-50.0%YoY
Biomedical Polymer Formulations

Polymer compositions tailored for medical and biological applications, including implantable devices, drug delivery systems, and diagnostic tools, emphasizing properties like biocompatibility, hydrolysis resistance, optical clarity, and specific mechanical characteristics.

Polymer Synthesis (Polymerization)
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3since 2023
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Polymer Composites with Functional Fillers

Polymer compositions incorporating inorganic or organic filler materials to impart specific functional properties such as thermal conductivity, flame retardancy, electrical conductivity, or enhanced mechanical strength and dimensional stability.

Polymer Synthesis (Polymerization)
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3since 2023
new
Advanced Modulation & Coding Schemes

Techniques for encoding digital data onto analog carrier signals using complex constellation diagrams, multi-level signaling, or layered approaches, often combined with error correction codes, to achieve higher data rates, improved spectral efficiency, or extended range.

Physical Transmission & Modulation
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3since 2023
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Advanced Adsorbent & Separation Media

Development of materials with tailored porosity, surface chemistry, or structure, such as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), zeolites, or superficially porous particles, for selective adsorption, ion exchange, or chromatographic separations.

Separation Processes (Filtration, Distillation)Catalysts & Reactors
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2since 2023
+100.0%YoY
Memory System Performance & Reliability

Hardware and control techniques for optimizing memory access latency, ensuring data integrity, and managing storage resources efficiently. This includes error correction, read/write voltage control, and intelligent data placement or in-memory computation.

Computer Hardware Architecture
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2since 2023
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Battery Pack Mechanical Design

Focuses on the structural integrity, housing, mounting, and physical integration of battery cells into robust and protected packs within electric vehicles, including manufacturing considerations.

Batteries & Fuel Cells
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1since 2023
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Solid-State Battery Manufacturing

Process and equipment for producing solid-state battery cells, including solid electrolyte synthesis (sulfide/oxide/polymer), thin-film deposition, lamination, sintering, dry-electrode fabrication, and stacking under controlled atmosphere.

Batteries & Fuel Cells
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1since 2023
new
Integrated Touch Sensors

Methods and structures for incorporating touch sensing capabilities directly into OLED display panels, typically involving conductive layers and insulating layers within or on top of the display stack.

Organic Electronics (OLED)
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1since 2023
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Battery Material Recovery

Processes and apparatus for disassembling spent batteries and recovering valuable materials (e.g., metals, electrolytes, plastics) through mechanical, chemical, or electrochemical methods for reuse or sustainable disposal.

Batteries & Fuel Cells
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1since 2023
new
Dynamic & Reversible Polymer Networks

Polymers incorporating reversible bonds or crosslinks that enable reprocessing, self-healing, or tunable mechanical properties, often responding to stimuli like heat, light, or pH for de-crosslinking and re-crosslinking.

Polymer Synthesis (Polymerization)
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1since 2023
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Novel Catalyst Materials

Development and synthesis of catalysts with unique compositions or structures, such as medium entropy alloys, metal foam-supported catalysts, layered catalytic articles, or high-entropy oxides, to enhance activity, selectivity, or stability in chemical reactions.

Catalysts & Reactors
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1since 2023
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Physical Layer Impairment Detection & Mitigation

Techniques and circuits designed to detect, estimate, and mitigate various physical layer signal impairments such as frequency spurs, phase noise, or non-linear distortions, thereby improving overall signal quality and system performance.

Physical Transmission & Modulation
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1since 2023
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US 12550516 B2GRANTED
H10K10/46

Effect of source-drain electric field on charge transport mechanism in polymer-based thin-film transistors

Filed:2022-12-28Pub:2026-02-10
Applicant:University of Seoul Industry Cooperation Foundation

Provided are a polymer thin-film transistor and a method of fabricating the same. Donor-acceptor copolymer-based field-effect transistors (FETs) have attracted considerable attention from technological and academic perspectives due to their low band gap, high mobility, low cost, easy solution processability, flexibility, and stretchability. Large-area films can be formed through meniscus-guided coating among various solution-processing techniques. 29-Diketopyrrolopyrrole-selenophene vinylene selenophene (29-DPP-SVS) donor-acceptor copolymer-based FETs have already shown excellent performance due to their short π-π stacking distance and strong π-π interaction. Charge carrier mobility of these types of semiconductor materials significantly depends on an applied electric field. Accordingly, detailed analysis of the electric-field dependency of charge carrier mobility is necessary to understand the transport mechanism within the material. Therefore, 29-DPP-S VS-based FETs are fabricated by varying the blade coating (BC) speed of a semiconductor layer. The effect of the BC speed on the electrical characteristics of the FETs is studied through the analysis of electric-field-dependent mobility. The results show that the charge carrier mobility of different FETs depends on the applied electric field and that the type of dependency is Poole-Frenkel. At an optimized BC speed (2 mm s −1 ), the device shows maximum zero-field mobility (3.39 cm 2 V −1 s −1 ) due to the low trap density within the conductive channel.