ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,342, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to JNC Corp. (Tokyo) and JNC PETROCHEMICAL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Liquid crystal composition and element" was invented by Eiji Okabe (Chiba, Japan), Takanori Mori (Chiba, Japan), Kazushi Shiren (Chiba, Japan), Yuko Katano (Chiba, Japan) and Yujiro Oguchi (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid crystal composition contains at least one compound selected from compounds represented by Formula (1), at least one compound selected from compounds represented by Formula (2), at least one compound selected from compounds represented by Formula (3), and at least one compound selected from compounds rep...