ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,414, issued on April 7, was assigned to MERCK PATENT GMBH (Darmstadt, Germany).
"Ferroelectric nematic liquid crystalline medium" was invented by Matthias Bremer (Darmstadt, Germany), Atsutaka Manabe (Darmstadt, Germany) and Martin Kraska (Darmstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The new LC media exhibit a ferroelectric nematic phase at ambient temperature. They comprise at least one or more compounds selected from each of formula IA, of formula IB and of the group of formulae IC-1/IC-2/IC-3,in which the variable groups have the meanings indicated in the text and in the claims. The mixtures are useful for electro-optics, ele...