US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Feb. 17 for "Optically anisotropic layer, optical film, polarizing plate, and image display device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,053, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optically anisotropic layer, optical film, polarizing plate, and image display device" was invented by Tatsuya Iwasaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshikazu Sumi (Kanagawa, Japan), Shunya Katoh (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Inada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuki Fukushima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical film, a polarizing plate, and an image display device, each having an optically anisotropic layer obtained by curing a polymerizable liquid crystal composition including immobilizing an alignment state of a rod-shaped liquid crystal compound (LCC) having reverse...