US Patent Issued to DIC on Nov. 18 for "Compound, liquid crystal composition, and liquid crystal display element, sensor, liquid crystal lens, optical communication device, and antenna using liquid crystal composition" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,492, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to DIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Compound, liquid crystal composition, and liquid crystal display element, sensor, liquid crystal lens, optical communication device, and antenna using liquid crystal composition" was invented by Mika Takasaki (Saitama, Japan), Takaya Ikeuchi (Saitama, Japan), Megumi Uzawa (Saitama, Japan), Noriyuki Sugiyama (Saitama, Japan), Go Sudo (Saitama, Japan), Masanao Hayashi (Saitama, Japan) and Shinichi Hirata (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compound capable of providing a liquid crystal composition with high Tni, large trianglen, low Vth, large triangleEpsilonr, sm...