ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,415, issued on April 7, was assigned to MERCK PATENT GMBH (Darmstadt, Germany).
"Aromatic isothiocyanates" was invented by Constanze Brocke (Darmstadt, Germany), Dagmar Klass (Darmstadt, Germany) and Carsten Fritzsch (Darmstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compound of formula UIand a liquid crystal medium containing the compound of formula UI and high-frequency components containing such media, especially microwave components for high-frequency devices, such as devices for shifting the phase of microwaves, tunable filters, tunable metamaterial structures, and electronic beam steering antennas, for example, phased array a...