US Patent Issued to Merck Patent on Sept. 8 for "Polymerizable liquid crystal material and polymerized liquid crystal film" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,341, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Merck Patent GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany).

"Polymerizable liquid crystal material and polymerized liquid crystal film" was invented by Stephen Mulcahy (Feltham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polymerizable LC material comprising one or more reactive mesogenic compounds and one or more compounds of formula I,Furthermore, a method for its preparation, a polymer film obtainable from a corresponding polymerizable LC material, a method of preparation of such polymer film, and the use of such polymer film and said polymerizable LC material in optical, electro-optical, in particular elect...