US Patent Issued to MERCK PATENT on April 7 for "LC mixtures with negative delta epsilon containing CC-4-V1 and COB(S)-N-OM" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,416, issued on April 7, was assigned to MERCK PATENT GMBH (Darmstadt, Germany).

"LC mixtures with negative delta epsilon containing CC-4-V1 and COB(S)-N-OM" was invented by Harald Hirschmann (Darmstadt, Germany), Kaja Christina Deing (Darmstadt, Germany), Brigitte Schuler (Darmstadt, Germany) and Sabine Schoen (Darmstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to liquid-crystal (LC) media having negative dielectric anisotropy comprising one or more compounds of formula Iand one, two, three or more compounds of formula IIIas defined in claim 1, and to the use of the LC media for optical, electro-optical a...