ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,644, issued on March 18, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Polarizer and image display device" was invented by Yumi Kato (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasukazu Kuwayama (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshiaki Takada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a polarizer with excellent durability and an image display device including the polarizer. The polarizer includes a composition for forming a polarizer which contains a polymer liquid crystal compound and a dichroic material, in which the dichroic material includes a first dichroic material and a second dichroic material, an absolute value of a difference between a log P val...