ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,350, issued on June 16, was assigned to MERCK PATENT GMBH (Darmstadt, Germany).
"Liquid crystalline medium and electro-optical device" 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 media exhibit a ferroelectric nematic phase preferably at ambient temperature. They preferably comprise one or more compounds selected from the group of compounds of formulae IA, IB and IC,in which the variable groups have the meanings indicated in the text and in the claims. Use of the media for providing ferroelectric nematic material...