ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,290, issued on May 12, was assigned to MERCK PATENT GMBH (Darmstadt, Germany).
"Method for reducing white flicker" was invented by Harald Hirschmann (Darmstadt, Germany) and Ewgenij Wakaresko (Darmstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reducing white flicker by bringing together into a composition one or more compounds of formula G with one or more compounds of formula B and/or C to form a liquid crystal (LC) medium having negative dielectric anisotropy, wherein the reduction of white flicker is achieved compared to an otherwise identical composition, but which does not include either (i) a compound of formula G or...