ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,678, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Merck Patent GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany).
"Liquid-crystal medium" was invented by Sven Christian Laut (Darmstadt, Germany), Hee-Kyu Lee (Shanghai), Minghui Yang (Shanghai), Harald Hirschmann (Darmstadt, Germany) and Kaja Christina Deing (Darmstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to liquid-crystal (LC) media as defined in claim 1, to the use thereof for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in LC displays, and to LC displays containing said LC media. The invention in particular relates to LC media with improved response time that enab...