ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,458, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Liquid crystal composition, liquid crystal cured layer, optical film, polarizing plate, and image display device" was invented by Tomonori Mimura (Kanagawa, Japan), Akio Tamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroyuki Hagio (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuta Fukushima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid crystal composition capable of forming a liquid crystal cured layer with suppressed cissing during formation of a liquid crystal cured layer and excellent alignment properties, a liquid crystal cured layer, an optical film, a polarizing plate, and an image display device. ...