ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,247, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Elcyo Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Liquid crystal element and eyeglasses" was invented by Giichi Shibuya (Kyoto, Japan), Sunri Lee (Kyoto, Japan) and Masanori Ozaki (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This liquid crystal element comprises a liquid crystal layer LC and a plurality of unit-electrodes U1 and U2, each including a first electrode E1 that is linearly formed, a second electrode E2 that is linearly formed and receives a voltage different from that of the first electrode E1, and a resistive layer HR having higher electric resistivity than the first electrode E1 and the second elec...