US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on March 18 for "Method for producing cholesteric liquid crystal layer, cholesteric liquid crystal layer, optically anisotropic body, and reflective film" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,642, issued on March 18, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for producing cholesteric liquid crystal layer, cholesteric liquid crystal layer, optically anisotropic body, and reflective film" was invented by Keisuke Kodama (Minamiashigara, Japan), Yuko Suzuki (Minamiashigara, Japan) and Shunya Katoh (Minamiashigara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a cholesteric liquid crystal layer, which is capable of freely controlling a tilt angle of an arrangement direction of bright portion and dark portion derived from a cholesteric liquid crystalline phas...