US Patent Issued to Merck Patent on May 12 for "Liquid-crystalline medium and liquid-crystal display comprising the same and compounds" (German, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,291, issued on May 12, was assigned to Merck Patent GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany).

"Liquid-crystalline medium and liquid-crystal display comprising the same and compounds" was invented by Sven Christian Laut (Shanghai), Martina Windhorst (Darmstadt, Germany), Atsutaka Manabe (Darmstadt, Germany) and Constanze Brocke (Darmstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid-crystalline medium, preferably having a nematic phase, comprising one or more compounds of formula Cthe use thereof in an energy-efficient electro-optical display, particularly in an active-matrix display based on the IPS or FFS effect, displays of this type which con...