US Patent Issued to Merck Patent on Oct. 20 for "Liquid-crystal medium comprising polymerizable compounds" (Taiwanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,889, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Merck Patent GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany).

"Liquid-crystal medium comprising polymerizable compounds" was invented by Min Tzu Chuang (Taipei, Taiwan), I-Wen Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), I-Hua Huang (Taipei, Taiwan), Jer-Lin Chen (Taipei, Taiwan) and Sven Christian Laut (Darmstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An LC medium (as a subcategory of liquid crystal material) comprising two or more polymerizable compounds, its use for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in LC displays, especially in LC displays of the PSA (polymer sustained alignment) or SA (self-aligning) m...