US Patent Issued to Japan Display on May 27 for "Liquid crystal optical element comprising an alignment control layer having a plurality of convex bodies" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,940, issued on May 27, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).

"Liquid crystal optical element comprising an alignment control layer having a plurality of convex bodies" was invented by Ayaka Higuchi (Tokyo), Shinichiro Oka (Tokyo), Koichi Igeta (Tokyo) and Junji Kobashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal optical element includes a transparent substrate having a first main surface, an alignment control layer having a plurality of convex bodies, and a liquid crystal layer having a cholesteric liquid crystal. The alignment control layer has a first alignment area in which the convex ...