US Patent Issued to Merck Patent on Feb. 24 for "Liquid crystal device" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,843, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Merck Patent GmbH (Germany).

"Liquid crystal device" was invented by Ties De Jong (Veldhoven, Netherlands), Florian Dhalluin (Veldhoven, Netherlands), Chuan Nie (Veldhoven, Netherlands) and Muhammad Ali (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid crystal device for absorbing and/or scattering a controllable amount of traversing light comprises an active layer having a first viewport surface, a second viewport surface, and at least two side surfaces. The first and second viewport surfaces contact respective first and second planar electrodes. The first and second planar electrodes respect...