ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,037, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SMART LIQUID CRYSTAL TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Suzhou, China).
"Liquid crystal light modulating device" was invented by Jiuzhi Xue (Suzhou, China), Li Li (Suzhou, China), Fei Wang (Suzhou, China), Jianhua Tang (Suzhou, China) and Ximei Shen (Suzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid crystal light modulating device includes substrates coated with a transparent conductive layer and a liquid crystal composition sandwiched between the substrates with a dichroic dye added; the resulting liquid crystal light modulating device can exist in at least two stable states that remain substantially ...