ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,417, issued on April 7, was assigned to Merck Patent GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany).
"Liquid-crystal medium" was invented by Jing Wang (Pudong New Area Shanghai, China), Sven Christian Laut (Darmstadt, Germany), Hee-Kyu Lee (Pudong New Area Shanghai, China), Aaron Lackner (Darmstadt, Germany), Dmitry Ushakov (Darmstadt, Germany), Rocco Fortte (Darmstadt, Germany) and Philipp Wucher (Darmstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid-crystal (LC) material comprising one or more compounds of the formula Ihaving negative dielectric anisotropy, wherein i) R11 and R12 identically or differently, denote H, straight chain alkyl or alkoxy...