US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on May 12 for "Cholesteric liquid crystal film and manufacturing method thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,292, issued on May 12, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cholesteric liquid crystal film and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Takahiro Hayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoshi Kuniyasu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Mitsuyoshi Ichihashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a cholesteric liquid crystal film including a cholesteric liquid crystal, in which, in a cross section in a thickness direction observed with a microscope, the cholesteric liquid crystal film has a stripe pattern in which dark portions and bright portions are alternately arranged, and has a folded structure due to the dark portions at a ...