ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,186, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Optical device" was invented by Jung Woon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Sun You (Daejeon, South Korea), Doo Young Huh (Daejeon, South Korea), Beom Jin Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong Hyun Oh (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Hong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Min Jun Gim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to an optical device, comprising: a first outer substrate; a liquid crystal cell and a second outer substrate sequentially, wherein the liquid crystal cell comprises an upper substrate including a first base l...