US Patent Issued to Merck Patent on March 3 for "Polymerisable oligomeric liquid crystal, polymerisable medium and polymerised liquid crystal film" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,617, issued on March 3, was assigned to Merck Patent GmbH (Germany).

"Polymerisable oligomeric liquid crystal, polymerisable medium and polymerised liquid crystal film" was invented by Danqing Liu (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Yuanyuan Zhan (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Efstathios Barmpoutsis (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Dirk Jan Broer (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polymerisable oligomeric liquid crystal (LC) and a polymerisable LC medium comprising the polymerisable oligomeric LC together with one or more mono-, di- or multireactive mesogenic compounds. Furthermore, a method for the preparation of the oligomeric L...