ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,545, issued on June 24, was assigned to Flexenable Technology Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Producing liquid crystal assemblies" was invented by May Wheeler (Cambridge, Great Britain) and William Reeves (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique, comprising: producing an assembly in preparation for a later process of permanently stretching one or more parts of the assembly; wherein the assembly comprises an amount of liquid crystal material in a region laterally bounded by a lateral barrier; and wherein producing the assembly comprises determining the amount of LC material, based at least partly on one o...