ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,679, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optically anisotropic layer, optical film, polarizing plate, and image display device" was invented by Chie Moriya (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an optically anisotropic layer with which an image display device having suppressed occurrence of oblique light leakage can be manufactured; and an optical film, a polarizing plate, and an image display device, each having the optically anisotropic layer. The optically anisotropic layer is obtained by curing a polymerizable liquid crystal composition including a predetermined rod-like liquid crysta...