ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,051, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Polymerizable liquid crystal compound, polymerizable composition, polymer, retardation film, method for producing retardation film, transfer laminate, optical member, method for producing optical member, and display device" was invented by Mami Motooka (Tokyo-to, Japan), Ken-ichi Okuyama (Tokyo-to, Japan), Kazuyuki Okada (Tokyo-to, Japan), Terutaka Takahashi (Tokyo-to, Japan), Mitsuru Endo (Tokyo-to, Japan), Shunsuke Irie (Tokyo-to, Japan), Tsuyoshi Sakaguchi (Tokyo-to, Japan), Kei Akiyama (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Kohei Ishikawa (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & T...